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NEMBE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
2nd edition of the Nembe dictionary, M.H.I. Kaliai, University of Ibadan Press, 1964.
This version prepared and edited by Roger Blench
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This printout: August 6, 2008
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations: ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Editor’s Preface............................................................................................................................................... 3
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Abbreviations:
Parts of speech of headwords have been indicated in this edition as follows
adj.
aux. v.
cf.
coll.
conj.
dem.
E.
enc.
esp.
ext. suff.
H.
infl. suff.
int.
int.
lit.
n.
num.
p.n.
prep.
pron.
poss.
quant.
v.
Y.
adjective
auxiliary verb
compare
colloquial
conjunction
demonstrative
English
enclitic
especially
extensional suffix
Hausa
inflectional suffix
interjection
interrogative
literally
noun
numeral
proper name
preposition
pronoun
possessive pronoun
quantifier
verb
Yoruba
derived from
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Nembe dictionary. Kaliai revised Blench. Circulation draft 6-Aug-08
Editor’s Preface
The present Nembe dictionary is a revised and expanded version of the Nembe dictionary published by
M.H.I. Kaliai at the University of Ibadan in 1964. died in early January 2005, with it still unpublished.
During the 1990s, the manuscript was typed without alteration into an Apple-based system under the
auspices of the late Professor Kay Williamson. The files transferred to an IBM system in the early 2000s, but
without any conversion of the character codes. This was only partly successful, and several sections of the
dictionary became corrupted. In order to make the manuscript available, I have therefore joined together the
fragments of the electronic manuscript and converted the diacritics to a single system. Checking of scientific
names and additional typing of corrupted electronic files was done by Dr. Carole Pegg and Dr. Martin
Walsh. I hope the results are consistent, but errors may still remain. In 2008, the availability of an extended
Times Roman Unicode font, made it possible to have the entire file in a single consistent font and the whole
manuscriopt was converted yet again. Manuscript notes made by Professor Williamson on a copy of the
original dictionary were added to the text. The original addendum to the published work, with words and
expressions omitted has now been edited into the main text. I have also corrected other obvious errors,
checked and updated scientific names and reformatted the headings. I have added additional etymologies
where they were known to me and substituted updated scientific names. Descriptions of musical instruments
and dance are based on my own original fieldwork.
The present ms. does not include the introduction, as there has been considerable scholarship on Nembe
since its publication and I hope to write a new text, incorporating modern insights inot the language, as well
as a bibliography of Nembe studies.
I believe the ms. should be published in hard copy, but there are several reasons for not doing this at present.
The first is that the ms. represents a form of Nembe current fifty years ago, and the language has changed. It
will need to be reviewed by competent speakers of the current language. Secondly, it would be unfortunate
not to have photographs with the text, in view of the richness of Nembe culture.
Roger Blench
Kay Williamson Education Foundation
Cambridge
06 August 2008.
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NEMBE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
The following abbreviations are intended to help search in particular semantic fields;
a
ai
al
am
an
ap
b
bf
bl
bm
bo
bp
bs
c
cl
co
cr
architecture
agricultural implement
animal sp. indet.
amphibian
ant
animal part
bird
bodily fluid
blacksmithing
body mark, sore etc.
boat term
body part
basket
crustacean
cloth
colour
crop
dr
e
et
f
fa
fg
fo
fp
fr
ft
g
ga
go
gr
h
he
hi
d
da
dc
dk
disease, sickness
domestic animal
dance
drink
i
k
la
á1
pron.
á2
pron.
á3
pron.
a1
pron.
a2
pron.
a3
pron.
a-1
pref.
a-2
pref.
a
suf.
item of dress
emotions
ethnonym
fish
farming
fishing gear
food
fish part
fruit
fishing term
grass
game
gourd
grasshopper
herb
hunting equipment
household
implement
insect
kinship
landscape
ma
me
mi
ms
mt
p
pd
po
r
s
sh
so
t
ti
tm
to
tp
mammal
medicine
musical instrument
masquerade
marine term
person
personal decoration
pot
reptile, amphibian
snake
shrub
song
tree
title
temporal (adverbs)
tool
tree part
tr
v
wv
wp
wt
traditional religion
vine
weaving
weapon
weather
subject form of 1st person singular pronoun; I: á ḅoyo ‘I am
coming’
subject form of 3rd person plural impersonal
á ḅoyo ‘they (nonpronoun; they (used of animals, birds, fishes
human) are coming’
or manufactured objects, not of human
beings):
object form of 3rd person plural impersonal
á lẹẹ ‘flog them
pronoun; them:
(non-human)’
subject form of 3rd person feminine singular
a ḅoyó ‘she is
pronoun; she:
coming’
object form of 3rd person feminine singular
a léẹ̣ ‘flog her’
person; her:
possessive form of 3rd person feminine
a ḅẹrémị
̣ opú ḅẹré ̣
singular pronoun; her; hers:
‘hers is a big case’
prefixed to a noun to form plural when a
tịn a-ḅerí ‘plant
qualifying word precedes:
leaves’, ịní á-ḅara
̣
‘my hands’
prefixed to the root of a verb to form a
a-ḅóu ‘drunkard’,
personal noun signifying a notorious doer of
a-múnu
the action denoted by the verb:
‘slumberer’
Derivatives with
this prefix have
been largely
omitted.
suffixed to a repeated verb to mean ‘after’,
ó ḅo ḅó-a ‘if or
‘if’, or ‘when’:
when or after he
1
comes’
áa!
aán!
abá
excl.
excl.
n.
tr
abá tein
abátein
ababá
ababá
abada
abadamindi
abadí ̣
abadí-aka,
̣
abadí ạ kaka
abadí-anga
̣
abadíḅẹlẹụ
̣
abadíḍẹrị
̣
abadí-erewọ
̣
abadí-ẹfẹrụ
̣
abadí-ẹngẹ
̣
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
tr
tr
bp
d
cl
cl
la
la
la
la
la
fr
c
wt
h
abadí-ituḅru
̣
abadí-ịfụngọị
̣
n.m.
n.m.
f
c
abadí-okolaịn
̣
n.m.
b
shout of surprise
used to express interrogation
magical power of poisoning; such poison;
charm:
charm; bewitch; influence by magic:
art of poisoning by magic
spleen
disease of the spleen; splenalgia; splenitis
cloth; blackprint
imitation abada cloth
ocean; sea
sea-coast
sea-coast
seashore, littoral
cape of the sea; headland; promontory
fruit with natural cracks or splits in the skin
fast-running whitish crab found on seashore
sea-breeze
rhizome or underground stem used as
medicine
seafish, mojarras sp.
bivalve shellfish with round or long soft white
shells found in sandy shores and hursts; clam
curlew
abadị-ókolaịn
n.m
b
curlew
abadí-osunga
̣
n.
g
grass sp.
abadíprịḅọ
̣
p
albino
abáka-ikuli
n.m.f
.
n.
f
sleeper sp.
abalába
abalamú ̣
ábaná
n.
n.m.
n.m.
hi
i
f
carved flat stick for turning fufu
bedbug
mudfish or barreto; conger eel
ábangá
n.
fr
plantain (both fruit and plant)
ábangá-obi
n.
d
ábangáḅaụ
abanga-ípeín
ábangátịn
ábangátụngba
awụ-ábanga
iḅéḅu-abanga
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
fr
ma-ipéín-abanga
n.
fr
disease; swollen state of the tissues of the
body; oedema; local dropsy
plantain sucker
plantains hanging together around the bunch
plantain bunch; plantain plant
plantain finger; single plantain fruit
red or purplish plantain
two fingers of plantain which are not split but
are still joined together
species of plantain with only two rings of fruit
(= atángbaị)
Gerres sp.
Numenius sp. (cf.
mụmọgbọlụ;
okolaín)
̣
Numenius sp. (cf.
mụmọgbọlụ;
okolaín)
̣
Paspalum sp. (=
angala kiri
osunga)
family Eleotridae.
Mispronounced
form of abása-ikuli
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Clarias spp. family
Congridae
Musa paradisiaca
Linn. (Musaceae)
okoloḅana’abanga
omoní-ábangá
omoní-abanga
abára
abará
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
fr
fr
fr
la
common banana cultivar, longer than osokpo
plantain cultivar
species of plantain with very long bunch
pretence; flourish in a dance or play
immature crop of land
abaraká
n.m.
f
mullet sp.
abaraká-ịdẹgé
n.m.
f
mullet sp..
abása
abása-ikuli
a.
n.m.
f
with flat and wide head
fish sp. sleeper sp. (‘flat-headed sleeper’)
abedí
abígorógoró
abígorógoró
n.m.
n.
n.
r
ga
sh
ábiógbo
abịa
n
n.
ms
mi
abóso
abó ̣
abó ̣bọ
abụlákịmị
n.
n.
n.
n.
bp
wp
t
tr
aḅá
n.m.
b
aḅa
n.m.
f
freshwater fish sp.
aḅaká
aḅaká
áḅakalafáka
aḅáko
aḅáko
abákomọ
aḅalaḅalá
aḅaláḍowei
n.
v.t.
n.
n., a.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
n.
v
bush-rope
tie with a rope
bush-rope
gaping; yawning
gape; yawn; gaze curiously at
agape
butterfly
cyprinid fish
aḅálaị
n.
v
i
f
Nile monitor lizard, ‘iguana’
game, guessing in which hand a seed is held
small shrub; the seed of the shrub, which is
used in the game
masquerade type
tall drum, narrow, cylindrical used for
Sẹkịapú ̣ masquerades
fork of stick or of thumb and other fingers
scabbard; sheath of sword
tree sp.
teraph; small figure of camwood made in
human shape, tied around neck of children to
protect them from gods during festivals
bird sp. with very long neck; great egreat =
great white egret
spell of struggling; melee v.i. struggle to get
free or escape from grasp or grip
3
abará kiri
‘immature land’
(i.e. which has not
lain fallow for long)
abará ikereḅuru
‘immature crop of
cocoyams’
family Mugilidae.
cf. akú ̣rọ;
ḅụọḅakalamọ;
gbulu; ídẹgẹ,
̣
mó ̣ngịnị
family Mugilidae.
cf. akú ̣rọ;
ḅụọḅakalamọ;
gbulu; ídẹgẹ,
̣
mó ̣ngịnị
family Eleotridae.
Mispronounced
abáka-ikuli cf.
ikúli
Varanus niloticus
(= atangbaị)
Casmerodius (or
Ardea) albusii;
Egretta alba
Gymnarchus
niloticus
(= aḅóko)
(= aḅóko)
Leptocypris
niloticus variety
(= adálaị)
aḅára
áḅiogbóo
áḅịḅịnyanáídeiḅur
ufịgha
n.
n.m.
n.m.
áḅogóita
aḅóko
h
water lettuce
gape; yawn; gaze curiously at
aḅóro
n.
n., a.
and
v.i.
n.
he
aḅóu
aḅú
n.m.
n.
p
ga
ada1
ada sẹgí ̣
ada2
adagbá, adagba
adagbaḍigí
n.f.
n.p.
n.
n.m.
n.
k
dc
adáka1
adáka2
adálaị
adi
n.m.
n.
n.
and
v.i.
n.m.
latex used in trapping birds; wild rubber in
general
drunkard
method of play in the game of ọga (like
English ‘jacks’), when backs of both hands
are used
firstborn daughter
graceful Sẹkịapú ̣ dance step
sword of office
African or rock python
vine held sacred by Nembe people as an
emblem of the python
lion
gun
= abálaị
f
freshwater cichlid fish sp.
adikororo
n.
m
western tree-hyrax
adó
Adó
a.
p.n.
et
alien; foreign
Ẹdo or Bini; hence
adóḅịḅị
aḍérị
̣
aḍúgo
afán
afán-ara
afánḅọ
afán sụọ
n.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
n.f.
n.f.
v.p.
áfaragáda
afáran
afáran
afarụ1
n.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
f
afarụ2
afíị̣
afóko
n.m.
n.m.
n.
i
p
sh
p
f
s
v
m
wp
p
p
p
p
p
wp
dummy; man of straw; scarecrow
rascally person, esp. a child
small-mouthed fish; elephant fish
foreign language
great laugher
great talker
of a fellow-wife, co-wife
co-wife
co-wife
live as co-wives; (in a bad sense) live at
loggerheads with
dagger (or spear used to kill fish? E.Gb.)
suffering
suffer; undergo pain
Madeiran sardinella, largest Cameroon
sardine sp. when small
cockroach
excessive eater; large or gross feeder
shrub sp.; child’s toy ‘gun’ made from the
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Mormyrops species
(lit., ‘I have no
mouth to eat my
husband’s food’)
Pistia stratiotes
=aḅáko
cf. Igbo
Python sebae
‘python’ + ‘liana’
Panthera leo
family Cichlidae.
cf. atán, elekéti,
ịtabalá, ọkpọtụḅa
Dendrohyrax
dorsalis
Adóḅịḅị ‘Ẹdo or
Bini language’
pl. afán-ongu
pl. afán-ongu
Sardinella
maderensis, = ikere
cf. búza; gbódo2;
kigbo,
kparakpará;
ikerere
(= apóto) the pitch
stem
afúru
afú ̣ḅa
áfụláfụ
agada
agagá
agagá
agagá tụa
agága-iga
agalá
agalá gbemọ
agála
agala
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
p
cr
mt
cl
e
bp
cl
ga
agala
agálamọ
ágalága
v.i.,
v.t.
n.
adv.
n.
agala-ófoniyaị
ágaláye
ágará
agarananá
ágba
ágbamọ
agbamó ̣
agbá
agbamó ̣
agba1
agba tụá
agba2
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.
b
g
dr
i
agbadá
n.
a
agbadá gbana
n.
and
v.p.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
agbadagíri
agbádaị
agbádaị
agbagagá,
agbagbagá
ágbagú ̣rụ
n.m.
bo
bo
hi
f
notorious thief
sweet cassava type
sea-bubble
old print cloth
wickedness
side of trunk containing the ribs
be wicked
strip cloth mixed with strands of raffia fibre
play sticks resembling arrows
play with agalá sticks
???
disperse; rout; scatter
is bored and
chewed fibre
inserted with a
narrower stick; a
second piece of
chewed fibre is then
pushed in sharply
towards the first;
the air is
compressed and
makes a sound as
the first piece is
pushed out
cf. ẹgịrígịrị
̣
dispersion, dispersing
dispersedly
curved ribs upholding roof of canoe; the roof
of the canoe itself; bush where bamboo
(mọmbó ̣) and thatch (ịnya) are collected
bird sp. (unidentified)
swamp grass
helmet; sun-helmet
dragonfly
tight; close
tightly; closely
tighten (rope, etc.)
berth; dock; come alongside; call at house
call in (at a place)
wooden plate, usually round in shape
wax full (of moon)
group or section into which sẹkịapụ club, or
any society, including church, is divided
ceiling of traditional houses, made of mud on
a wattle foundation
lay(ing) mud on the ceiling of a native house
big container
squirm, wriggle, writhe while weeping
wriggling movement
wall-plate height (i.e. height at which the
wall-plates, which support the roof, are laid)
fish sp.; snake-head
5
Parachanna
agbaká1
agbaká2
mindímọndịagbaka
agbaká3
agbakaramó ̣
agbala
ágbalakóko
n.
n.
n.
ágbalála
agbamó ̣
agbangba
agbangba sogió
agbára
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
agbáya
agbí
agbí tụa
agbógi
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
ms
ágbọ
ágbọpẹlẹḅọ
n.
n.m.
wp
ms
mindí-agbọpẹlẹḅó ̣,
mindí-agbọpẹlẹḅọ
ágbọkó ̣
ịyọrọ-ágbọkó ̣
owei-ágbọkó ̣
agbó ̣lọ
ageré
n.m.
f
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
r
r
r
sn
mt
agíri
agịlí ̣
ágịríga
̣
agoro
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
ms
wp
fg
agorodi
aguda
aguda
n.
n.
n.
tr
tr
mt
agúugúu
agúugúumọ
agú ̣ḅa
a.
adv.
n.
ga
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
tp
ap
b
h
a
a
f
pod of oil-bean tree
hoof; shoe; boot
rainboot
hook somebody with the arm; hedge in
greedy child that eats with every person
fetish; nickname for the sun
palm-nut vulture = vulterine fish-eagle; much
revered by Nembe people
medicinal weed
close; tighten
rafters
outer wall-plate in native houses
fish sp.; snapper spp. (‘adult snapper’)
obscura. =
mumbeí; okoḅia
cf. sangá-agbaka
Gypohierax
angolensis (cf. igó)
(see also sará)
Lutjanus spp. Four
common species are
recognised, viz:
kesi agbará, kéụn
̣
agbara, kokoin
agbará, séún
agbara
hold someone with arms round shoulders
odour; smell; spoor; scent
make ingenious arrangement; intrigue
masquerade from Abua played by the Tombi
quarter of Nembe
shield
masquerade in which leader protects audience
with a shield from attacks by the masquerader,
who carries a sword
sea-horse
Hippocampus spp.
agama lizard
female agama lizard; (slang) womenfolk
male agama lizard; (slang) menfolk
snail, ikosó with hard shell
high waves close to the shore, very dangerous
to incoming or outgoing boats
masquerade type resembling ẹbẹ
small shot for firearms
fish-trap
debt
medicine
fetish
light waves during high tide carrying debris to
the shore
serious; grim; stern (of look)
sternly; grimly
women’s game involving clapping and
standing on one leg while extending the other
6
(= sa) <the name of
a village in
Southern Njọ noted
for not paying debts
agụlá
agú ̣lụụ
agú ̣lụụ
agú ̣lụụmọ
agú ̣ọ
agụó ̣
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
n.m.
aíṇ
pron.
ájagbá
ájagbá-ọkpụnkọrọ
n.
n.
ajakịmó ̣
ajana
aká
adv.
n.m.
n.
ọfịrịma-aká
aka póú
aka
aka-aká
ḅurúfị-aka
ikuká-aka
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
bp
óbi-aka
obirí-aka
tọrú ̣gọ-aka
aka farí ̣
aka farí ̣
aka farí ̣
aka isí
aka-ịsịye
akakará
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.p.
n.
n.
ap
ap
bp
akanọ
aka pou ḅurú
aka sọgịye
ákáa!
akaínkpo
̣
n.
n.p.
n.
excl.
n.
d
akaká
akákáanda
akáloo
akáloo
akáloomọ
akáma
akáma warí ̣
mẹụn akama
you akama
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
akámba
akambalaḅá
n.
n.
wt
wt
wt
tr
s
fo
bo
bp
bp
mi
stilts
cloudy with cumulous clouds
have cumulus clouds on horizon
with cumulus cloud
sorcerer
very poisonous green snake; green mamba;
subject, object and possessive form of 3rd
person singular neuter pronoun; it; its
Isoko town
fufu first obtained from ájagbá, in which the
cassava is grated fresh and then the pulp is
just packed up and stored
casually
champion; leader of a herd of animals
brim; brink; border; coast; edge (of tools,
shells, etc.); gunnel or gunwale (of boat); cog;
seam; hem (of cloth)
double teeth growing from the same root
hem; turn down and sew in edge of cloth
tooth; fang
misunderstanding between friends
milk tooth
bicuspid tooth; premolar; molar; wisdom
tooth; cheek tooth
serpent’s poison fang
canine tooth
incisor; front tooth; eye-tooth
chatter (of teeth)
gnash teeth; grind teeth
gnashing of teeth
watery mouth of a child prior to teething
toothbrush; toothpaste
operation for opening the space between the
teeth, customarily done in a symbolic fashion
at death when the corpse is laid in state
toothache; pain in the teeth
gift to a teething child
toothpick
cry of pain
small drum beaten with stick to convene
meeting of Sẹkịapụ club
Dendroaspis viridis
or jamesonii
(see iseregu
ọkpụnkọrọ)
also azakịmó ̣
(= olótu)
(= akaká)
= aká
bm
i
i
i
i
dr
heavy tribal mark (not used in N embe)
stare; look fixedly with eyes wide open
staring gaze
staringly
bee
apiary; hive; beehive
honey bee
migrating bee; believed to be portent of death
when it flies over village
style of wearing cloth tied round neck
somersault
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akambalaḅá fin
akaná
v.i.
v.t.
akaná
akanamó ̣
akanákoro
n.
v.t.
n.
akánga
akánga
akánga
akánga
akanga1
n.
bf
n.m.
b
akanga2
akanga-ikeín
akangará1
n.m.
n.
n.
c
h
ft
akangará2
akasá
akata
n.
n.m.
n.m.
cl
cl
f
crab sp. found in freshwater streams
plant sp. and its fruit
woven material of bamboo sticks for drying
small fishes and shrimps
print cloth, whose pattern resembles the above
print cloth
sailfin; saddled bichir
akatolú
ákaụn
n.
n.
t
first sharpening of a knife or axe
tree sp. and fruit (see ó ̣ka)
akatolúte agbara`
akínda
n.p.
v.i.
akinda
v.t.
akí
n.
tp
akíḅeri
̣
akírịpẹlẹ
̣
akịsí ̣
ḅịté ̣ akịsị
akó
akó tịẹ
akóko-imbí
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
tp
c
cl
abadị-ákoko-imbí
ịyọrọ-akóko-imbi
owei-akóko-imbi
akongói
akóto
akoto
akpá1
akpá2
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.
c
c
akpákpa
n.
tp
akpákpa ogboin
n.
t
p
h
bo
somersault
encircle; encompass; surround; enclose;
environ; turn boat round to another beach
surrounding; enclosure; environment
come, go round
point at which a complete round is woven in
net weaving
dried remains of:
1. blood after bleeding
2. fluid from an ulcer
3. spittle round the mouth in the morning
bird sp.; yellow-casqued hornbill
notoriously experienced person, esp. a woman
tie a small piece of cloth round waist and
between legs
tie a small piece of cloth round waist and
between legs
yellowish/reddish dead mangrove leaf; fish
eggs are roasted on it
mangrove leaf
half scallop-shell
piece of silk cloth, traditionally used for burial
handkerchief
edgeways
stand edgeways
horse-bean
?
?
?
mangrove crab sp.
freshwater crab sp.
mull; snuffbox
bag; sac; sack; pocket
steer a canoe by placing the paddle in a steady
position
kernel of the seed of wild mango used in
thickening soup
wild (native) mango
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Ceratogymna elata
(cf. amúsu1;
apịapịa; ọkadịgọ)
Polypterus
endlicheri
endlicheri
[Probably bitter
kola; cf. Kal. akáịn,
Kol. akaán]
(cf. ịfụngọị, ịkara)
Canavalia
ensiformis
(= okóto)
Irvingia gabonensis
(Irvingiaceae). Also
recorded as
akpákpakpa
ogboin
akpakpá1
n.
akpakpá fá ósi
akpakpá2
akpakpa dú ̣
akpakpa dụ arú ̣
akpakpalí ̣
akpakurú
akpálaị, akpálaịn
akpálaịn
akparakpá
ákparígwe
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
akpekurú
akpị
akpírị̣
akpó
akpo-égele
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
akpó ísi
akpóbirísi
akpọ
akpú ̣nkọrọ
n.
n.
n.
n.
i
bo
bo
bo
la
am
am
hi
tr
i
hi
b
d
t
t
pain in the chest
tree sp. used for medicine
life
fufu from fermented cassava. There are two
types:
ájagbá akpú ̣nkọrọ in which the cassava is
grated fresh and some of the starch removed
and then the pulp is allowed to ferment,
iseregu or kesi akpú ̣nkọrọ in which the
cassava is fermented wholly
rug; tarpaulin; kinds of coarse cloth
tent
coarse thread packed in bundles
retch; keck
retching
big drum beaten with palm of hand to
convene meeting of sẹkịapụ club
special instinctive power to avoid evil
acid; bitter; saline; acrid; salty
acidity; bitterness; salinity; acridity
be acid; be bitter; be salty
bitterly
embitter; make bitter
tree sp. resembling wild mango tree
cr
red cocoyam
fo
akpú ̣nkọrọ
fo
akpú ̣nkọrọ
fo
akpụrú ̣
akpụrú ̣ warị
akpụrụka
akúḅa
akúḅa
akusa
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
akúsi
akú ̣
akú ̣
akú ̣
akú ̣mọ
akụmó ̣
akụ
n.
a.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
akụakpú ̣a
n.
and
a.
carapace; upper shell of tortoises and
crustaceans; shell of snail; hooped staves of
barrel or cask (cf. póni akpakpa)
slug
improvised mat roof on a big canoe
improvise a mat roof on a canoe
canoe covered with improvised mat roof
edge of swamp
quiver; box
slimy frog with very long hind legs
slimy frog with very long hind legs
coarse mat made from raffia bamboo pulp
iron staff used by fetish priests and for the
arụgụ dance
quiver; box
tick
gluttonous child
knife used by palm wine tappers
bird sp.; common bulbul
cl
mi
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(= akpekurú)
(see kú ̣rọnáásawọ)
(= akpakurú)
Pycnonotus
barbatus (see
kaínkólo)
̣
= ọkpú ̣nkọrọ
?Panda oleosa
Pierre (Pandaceae);
cf. iku
(= akwakwáa) (cf.
akụakú ̣a
ikereḅuru)
akụán
akụan
n.
n.
fo
mi
akụlá
ịdọnị-akụla
akú ̣pa
n.
n.
n.m.
tr
b
oil fat for eating
drums. General term for drums
accompanying the ogono farzvai (q.v.) [?]
rod; staff; wand
decorated wooden staff used by priestesses
fish-eating bird; gull or tern
akú ̣rọ1
n.m.
akú ̣rọ-ikoso
akú ̣rọ
n.m.
n.m.
sn
f
better shell for playing tops; (slang) self-made
champion; bully
small snail
mullet sp. (‘the hard-scaled mullet’)
akú ̣rọ
akú ̣rọ-ịdẹgé
a.
n.
f
describing species of mullet
mullet sp.
akwakwá
n. a.
same as akụakú ̣a
akwán
alá1
alámindi
alá2
alá3
timí alá
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
timí alá
timí alá
aládụ
aládụ
alágha
alakọró
alámọ
alamó ̣
ala
ala-ẹtẹmétẹmẹ
̣
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
ala-obí
ala-obí
ala-obí
alaḅéke-imbi
ala ḅou
n.m.
n.m.
a.
n.
n.
s
same as akụán
brine; seawater
salt water
plain pepper soup prepared without oil
be distant; be remote
stay long; last; go on or remain unexhausted
for long; delay; linger
long; last; far; distant
long; far
distant; far; remote
distance
soon; not long after; the present time
“king” raffia palm
long
make longer; lengthen
richness
beautifully-coloured spider producing silk
web
beautifully-striped snake
queen (among insects, etc.)
rich; wealthy
"king" coconut palm
king-raffia; vinifera palm
alaḅóú
alaḅọ
n.
n.m.f
.
pl.
n.m.
t
alapụ
alapụ-indí
mt
mt
fo
t
i
t
t
f
"king" raffia palm;
rich man; chief; lord:
rich men; chiefs; lords
tongue-sole spp.
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(= akwán)
family Laridae /
Sternidae (= apú ̣ka;
cf. kịárara;
kịérịya)
̣
family Mugilidae. =
abaraká,
ḅụọḅakalamọ,
ẹkpẹrú ̣kpẹrụ,
gbulu, mó ̣ngịnị,
ó ̣zọló ̣lị2,
(cf. akú ̣rọ ịdẹgẹ)
family Mugilidae. =
akú ̣rọ cf. ịdẹgé ̣
Raffia hookerii
Raffia vinifera; cf.
ḅoukọrọ
Raffia vinifera
family
Cynoglossidae. lit.
‘chief of fish’
alaḅụó ̣
ala-ịkagí ̣
n.
n.m.
ala kọn
alakọró ̣
alalụgú ̣
ala-okóko
v.i.
n.
n.
n.m.
alapụ-ogidí
álagbá
álagbá-iḅoko
indu-alagba
ọwọrọdó ̣-alagbá
álaggbákaratíṇ
alagba
alagbalá
alagbalápulo
alaịkịán, alakịén,
̣
alaịkịéṇ
alaká
alakamó ̣
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
p.n.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
fg
álakíngi
álalá
alalamó ̣
álalánda
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
fr
sword
gun (in general)
barrel of gun
long petiole or leaf-stalk of pawpaw
capsgun [?]
iroko tree
masquerade
paint (in general)
carbolic
mature but soft white kernel found among
other kernels
fall into a snare; miss step and fall into a ditch
trap fish from a dammed-up area through an
opening
rash
funnel
blight; shrivel; wither
orange tree
álalándatịn
álapá1
n.
n.m.
t
f
orange tree
jellyfish; medusa
ịyọrọ-álapá
owei-álapá
álapá2
alapụ
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.pl.
f
f
tp
alataịn
alele
n.
n.
alesé
alesé
alesé
aleséḅọ
n.
a.
v.i.
n.m.f
.
adv.
v.t.
(female) jellyfish with short flagella
(male) jellyfish with long flagella
jelly-like attachment on roots of mangrove
rich men; chiefs; lords (For compounds see
ala.)
small aluminium measuring bowl
comb; red fleshy crest of fowl; the long and
pendulous tail feathers of some male birds
wandering; vagrant character
vagabond; vagrant
wander about; rove; stroll
vagabond; wanderer; vagrant
alesémọ
alesemó ̣
r
t
t
b
wp
wp
wp
tp
t
ms
tp
ap
p
p
instep
"king" tortoise; legendary golden tortoise
connected with Kụla
be rich; amass wealth
"king" raffia palm;
"king" oilpalm
"king parrot”, unidentified bird sp. said to
have red plumage all over the body as on the
tail
vagrantly
make vagrant
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legendary golden
tortoise connected
with Kụla. cf. ịkagị
Raffia hookerii
none of the local
parrots matches this
description; perhaps
the Senegal parrot,
Poicephalus
senegalus (cf.
okóko1)
Milicia excelsa
Citrus aurantium
Linn. and C.
sinensis (Linn.)
Osbeck (Rutaceae)
Citrus sinensis
class Scyphozoa. cf.
ịyọrọ-álapá, oweiálapá
alili
n.
alí ̣
alịmó ̣
álịpáka
álo
álomọ
aló ̣
asamanaló ̣
alu
aluwarí1̣
aluwarí2̣
alú ̣a1
alú ̣a2
a.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
sal.
v.i.
álú ̣a
alú ̣amọ
ḍọgí ạ lú ̣a
álụgụḅíya
̣
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
alú ̣lụalụlụ
alú ̣lụalụlụmọ
alụmaịn
ama1
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
be restless in agony
restlessly
blow with the foot in somersaulting
(always in combination) means ‘man’ in:
ama2
amatarí ̣
amatarí ̣
amatarịḅará
amatarịḅó ̣
n.
a.
n.
adv.
n.m.f
.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
v
.phr.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
a.m.f
.
hamlet; village; town; city
patriotic; nationalistic
patriotism; nationalism
patriotically
patriot; nationalist
ama-anga
ama-anga
amaḅiri
amaḅịbị
amaḅọ
ama da
ama da
amadaḅó ̣
ama dé
amaḍigiḅó ̣
mi
cl
cl
cl
cl
s
b
small drum beaten as an accompaniment to
other drums. Open conical. Plays an ostinato
pattern. Usually in pairs, placed in a basin of
water. Beaten with sticks. For owu kuro
three or four are tied together and beaten by
one player.
worn down by friction; eroded
make attrited
cloth; alpaca
be restless
restlessly
white cloth
silken white cloth used mainly for burial
cloth type
piece of alu cloth
very large green snake
salutation in some dialects, such as Ogbia
yearn; be filled with longing for rest, etc., or
to see something
look for; search for
yearningly; longingly
look for earnestly
village weaver bird
suburb
suburban
heart or middle of town
dialect; language; vernacular; vocabulary
native; countryman; villager:
(see inikíti)
<English
Ploceus cucullatus
(= íguegele; cf.
lụgúḅ ịa)
̣̣
áma ḅára (lit.
‘man-hand’) ‘right
hand’; amá na eré
na ‘man and wife’
(i.e. ‘husband and
wife’)
pl. ama-ongu
reign; rule; govern; hold sway ("guide town")
reign; rule; sway; sovereignty; monarchy
ruler; governor; monarch
cleanse the town ritually
regent
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(same as
amanyanaḅó ̣)
amamịẹmịẹye
n.m.
v.p.
n.
n.f.
n.
n.
n.f.
n.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
ama mọndí ̣
ama nyana
v.p.
v.p.
amanyana-ara
amanyanaḅọ
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
amaḍigioweí
ama fị
ama fị
amafị-ịyọrọḅọ
amakoromọ-idu
amakiri
amakiriḅa
amakuḅu
amakuḅu
amakuḅuḅọ
amanyana-owei
amanyanaḅọkiri
ama-ogbo
amatẹmẹsuo
amángara1
amángara2
p
fr
la
tr
sanitary inspector
live as harlot
living as harlot
harlot; prostitute; strumpet; whore; hooker
banana with very short fruits
ground; soil; land; expanse of country
goddess of the land
township
civil; civilian
native; aborigine; civilian; citizen
praxis; customs and accepted institutions of a
place
stroll
own; reign; rule:
p
p
queen; empress
monarch; potentate; supreme ruler
p
king; emperor
kingdom
same as amaḅiri
spirit of the land. This is the highest worship
of the village
pneumonia; side-pain
hand something on the shoulder
tr
amangarámọ
amarán
n.
v.t.
and
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
ambá
ambakọrígha
̣
ambáfáa
ambalịmó ̣
ambiri
ambirí findimọ
ambóko
ambókomọ
ambúrei
ambúsei
ambú ̣ra
amgbá1
amgbá2
amgbá3
n.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
a.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
amgbá ḅọgọ
amgbákokoḅá
amgbákokoḅaimgbá
amgbakú ̣rọ
v.i.
n.
n.
fp
bp
sideways (hanging right or left)
catch or get hold of someone or something
tightly
manpower; strength; might
restorative medicine
possibly; perhaps
make pressing effort
puffing out of oneself
puff oneself out
opened wide; broad (of entrance)
opened widely
brother
seed
sister
barrel; cask; firkin; puncheon
bank of a creek or river; littoral (left or right)
cheek; outer side of mouth; side of face below
eye; lower and upper jawbones forming
framework of mouth; jowl; gill-cover
be overdone (cookery)
side of jaws; gill-cover or operculum
cheekbone; jaw bone
n.m.
f
small okoróḅa fish
k
tp
k
mt
bp
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("live on town")
orí amamí nyana
̣
‘he rules the town’;
orí Ọkpọma nyaná
‘he rules Ọkpọma’
(lit. ‘spirit that
creates the land’)
voc ámburei
voc. ámbụra
Tilapia sp.
(okoroḅa)
ámgbo
n.m.
ms
amgbóko
n.m.
f
amínị
̣ 1
amínị
̣ 2
amú
n.
n.
n.
t
amúnu
p
amúsu1
n.m.f
.
n.m.
tree sp. yielding good light timber
one who is fond of swallowing
medicine for protection, worn as amulet on
arm
slumberer
b
hornbill sp.
amúsu2
n.m.
tr
ananá
ánda
andá1
anda-igbogí
ándamọ
andamó ̣
andá2
v.t.
and
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
vampire; spirit of wizard or witch that is
supposed to suck blood of sleeping persons
roast or toast lightly on fire
andá ḍigi
v.i.
andáebí
a.
andá kọrí ̣
andá sigi
v.p.
tr
masquerade which catches handkerchiefs,
etc., from members of the audience; (slang) a
thief
mudskipper
family Gobiidae,
subfamily
Oxudercinae. cf.
ịtílạ
family Bucerotidae
(cf. akanga1;
apịapịa; ọkadịgọ)
be bent; be curved
bend; curve; incline
manila (currency)
with a curve or bend
bend; wrest; twist; deflect; distort; pervert
each successive birth of a mother which is
delivered at full term
said of a child when it stoops and peeps
through its legs. It is believed that it is
looking for the next child to follow it.
when next child is born in the supposed
normal time of 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 years
said of child which grows weak and sickly,
influenced by the succeeding pregnancy of the
mother:
said of a child at each succeeding birth of the
mother: i.e. the child has become one or more
times older in age group:
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andá tó ̣gụḅeí
kọrịyó ‘the
mother’s pregnancy
is affecting the
child’. Also used
of a pregnant
woman longing for
different types of
food, or of a
husband who feels
unusually weak
during his wife’s
pregnancy.
á sọnọ andá sigitẹ
‘I have five
younger brothers
and sisters
following me’;
andá sigitẹḅọ na ó
kịgẹgha ‘he has no
resemblance to
someone who has
siblings following
him: he behaves
like an only child’
andáseí
a.
otoḅá-anda
n.
anda
anénde
v.i.
and
v.t.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
a.
v.i.
a.
n.
n.
n.m.
a.
a.,
adv.
n.m.
angá1
angá-anga
angá koromọ
angá2
n.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
angánafíạ
angáyọ
anga1
anga1
angamó ̣
angánafíạ
amakuḅu-angá
prí ạ ngá
anga2
anga ḅalá
angaḅalaḅá
anga ḅọgó ̣
angadọgụ-arụ
anga ghọ wọrí ̣
a.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
anda
andabuluku
andaarí
andí1̣
andịḅọ
andídụmina
̣
andí d
̣ ụ mina
andídụnó
̣
̣
andị dụ nó ̣
andíkpọ
̣
andí2̣
andí-ebí
̣
andí-ebí
̣
andíseí
̣
ebi-andí ̣
sei-andí ̣
ándịkéle
andókoo
ándụ
when succeeding child is born too close to the
former, e.g. 1 to 1 1/2 years after it
pregnancy and birth which occur after a very
long interval from the former one, e.g. 4 years
or more
wrestle; grapple with person
dr
bp
p
d
d
wrestling match
skirt worn by wrestlers
roar or growl like lion or leopart
brow; forehead
foreman
state of being headachy
have headache; be headachy
state of being headachy
same as preceding
mature (of human being); adult <able 18)
fortune; luck
fortunate; lucky
be fortunate, lucky
unfortunate; unlucky
bonanza; good luck
bad luck
nit; egg of louse
prick-eared (of ears)
over there; yonder
b
bird sp.; hammerkop;
ap
egg; ovum; spawn; roe
full of eggs
lay egg; spawn
dwell; sojourn; make one’s abode; live in;
inhabit
liveable in; worth living in; inhabitable
dwelling place; house; abode
marry; espouse; take in marriage
marriage; wedlock
join in wedlock
marriageable
civil marriage
give in marriage
aspect; phrase; side; flank; part; region
sleep on one side
side issue
go aside
stern-wheeler
keep to one side; set aside; set in abeyance or
suspension
bo
15
(= atákoo)
(cf. aní dụ
̣ ‘that
part’)
Scopus umbretta. =
kọrọrọkó ̣tị
anga-imbí
anga imbí
anga kpụ ḍaye
anga kóro
angakóro
angapagara
angapagara
angapu
n.
v.p.
fg
fg
v.p.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
dr
anga sụú ̣
angasụó ̣
gbọrị anga(ghọ)
angala
v.p.
n.
adv.p
.
n.
t
red mangrove
angalapẹlẹyaí ̣
angalaḅou
angala-ingu
angala-ingu
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
ms
tp
tp
mi
angalakiri
angalakiri-ikosó
n.
n.m.
tp
c
masquerade of Njọ origin
mangrove forest
mangrove seedling
whistle made from a mangrove seedling by
children
mangrove forest
limpet spp.
angalakiri-osungá
n.
g
grass sp.
angala-ogidi
angalatẹndẹ
angalatuguwéí
n.
n.
n.m.
t
tp
s
sliver or splinter from mangrove wood
secondary prop roots of mangrove
black snake; black cobra
ángaláyaị
ímburu-angala
n.m.
n.
ms
t
kú ̣rọkíri-angala
n.
t
mingoliḅá-angala
n.
t
masquerade depicting a monkey
tall and soft-wooded mangroves growing in
very boggy marshes
short and strong mangroves growing on
chikoko marshes
branching mangrove:
angéle
angị
ángịrí ̣
angóko
angókomo.
angóloi
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
i
angómọ
anị
v.t.
a.
and
pron.
adv.
adv.
adv.
aníḅará
̣
aníḅaraḿḅụ
̣
aníḅụ
̣
method of fishing by women
fish by this method
?
list (of canoe)
list of canoe
lateral; sideward; sideways
laterally; sidewards; sideways
garment for men’s upper wear; not cut like a
shirt; reaches to knees and has three-quarter
length sleeves
be partial; take sides
bias
in part; partly; partially
large tsetse fly
coal; carbon; charcoal
carpenter’s tool; auger
hideous; frightful
hideously; frightfully
prickly spreading shrub;
rebuke; reprove; chide; reprimand
that
accordingly; ditto; likewise; so; that is so
so; equally; thus; similarly; analogously
so; thus
16
Rhizophora
racemosa G.F.W.
Mey (family
Rhizophoraceae)
Patella
safiana,
Fissurella nubecula
Paspalum sp. (=
abadí ósunga)
̣
Naja melanoleuca.
cf. olibi
Rhizophora
harisonii
Tabanus spp.
Macherium lunatum
(Linn.f.) Ducke
(LeguminosaePapilionioideae)
aníḅụẹḅé
ka
̣
̣
adv.
and
conj.
conj.
anígha
̣ 1
conj.
anígha
̣ 2
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
conj.
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
conj.
conj.
n.
n.
v.p.
aníḅụka
̣
anígha
faa
̣
aní ị fie
anímị
̣ ẹrẹsínẹ,
anímị
̣ ẹrẹsínẹ
̣
anímị
̣ sigimọ
anímị
̣ tịḅị ḍugómọ
aní n
̣ a karágha
aní n
̣ ẹ
aní ṛ ẹ
anítẹré
̣
̣
aníya
̣
ánoin1
ánoin2
ánoin fịna
ánoin fariyai
anọ, anụ
nevertheless; for all that; yet; all the same;
notwithstanding; in spite of the fact that
nevertheless; for all that; yet; all the same;
notwithstanding; in spite of the fact that
or: introduces the second of two alternatives,
except in interrogative senses, when mọnọ is
used instead
not that
else; otherwise; if not
then; at that time
consequently; therefore; so; for that reason
moreover; apart from that; unless that
for the sake of that; on account of that
rather than that
so; as a result; consequently
so; with the intent that; so that
mi
tr
v.t.
anwan
anwanmó ̣
anwanrán
v.t.
v.t.
n.
wt
anyaman’ọgịẹí ̣
n.
g
anyan
anyíṇ
v.t.
n.
f
apaḅura
apaḅura
apaḅuraḅọ
n.
v.i.
n.m.f
.
a.
n.
a.
n.
apákoo
apála
apáloo
apapá
cr
before; ere; previous to the time when
then; in that case; it follows that
blindfolding
wooden plaque bullroarer
cf. noin-nama
blindfold
ceremony performed before setting off for war
bind water pot with rope for tapping and
protection; frap
hollow out; scoop
hollow out; scoop
August dry spell
anwanrán tịẹté ̣
‘the August dry
spell is now on’
sedge resembling ịnwanwan with broader
leaves
spread (mat)
catfish spp.
African butter
catfish, Schilbe
mystus; catfish sp.
Parailia congica
stammer; stutter
stammer; stutter
stammerer; stutterer
flabby; flaccid; limp
flat bean found floating in rivers
flabby; limp
groundnut
17
Arachis hypogaea
Linn.
(Leguminosae-
Papilionioideae)
apara
n.
fg
apara
apara sará
apáta
n.
v.p.
n.
h
fg
mi
ape
v.i.
ape
apio
n.
n.
v
apịapịa
n.m.
b
apo, apópo
a.
aporoin
aporoin-ikosó
n.m.
n.m.
apóto
apó ̣gọ
apú ̣ka
n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
apụká
apụkamó ̣
v.i.
v.t.
taste sour after eating unripe fruit (of mouth)
make mouth taste sour:
ápụn
ápụn-ḅịtẹ
apụnmó ̣
ápụnwéí
apụn
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
n.m.
mindí-apụn
ará1
n.m.
pron.
cover; overlay; overspread with cloth or hand
cover-cloth
cause to cover or overspread with cloth
large sheet for covering
roundworms; other worms parasitic in the
intestines of man
fish resembling roundworm
subject form of 3rd person feminine singular
long pronoun; she:
ará2
dem.
a.fem
.
pron.
ará3
ará4
ara
dem.
a.pl.
pron.
arákaa
a.
farinaceous meal used in trapping fish; the
method of trapping itself
weed used as medicine
set trap by the method of apara
open-mouthed waterpot half-filled with water
struck with raffia fans for mixed dancing.
Used in tuned sets
roam; ramble; wander about; (of arrow) fly
out of course or direction
roaming; rambling; wandering
bush-cane rope
bird sp.; African pied hornbill = allied
hornbill
empty
c
c
p
ikoso with a soft shell
weaker shell for a game; (slang) a weak
person
children’s plaything
glutton
fish-eating bird; ull or tern sp.
cl
i
f
that (fem.):
subject form of 3rd person plural impersonal
long pronoun; those:
those:
possessive form of 3rd person feminine
singular long pronoun; her:
wide open
18
Eremospatha
macrocarpa
(Palmae)
Tockus fasciatus
(cf. akanga1;
amúsu1; ọkadịgọ)
apo imbí, apópo
imbi ‘empty nut or
coconut’
same as afóko
Tockus fasciatus
(cf. akanga1;
amúsu1; ọkadịgọ)
ḅịḅị apụkamọ ilé
‘ile-fruit that makes
the mouth taste
sour’
ará mẹnẹ ‘she said;
ará tú ̣ḅọ? ‘who is
she?’
ará ịyọrọḅó ̣ma
‘that woman’
ará ó yai ‘those are
his’
ará yema ‘those
things’
ara indíḅei ‘her
fish’ ara indíma
‘her fishes’
arákaamọ
áran
aran
árasú ̣
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
aree
v.i.
aree
arékaa
arí1̣
arí1̣
aríḅọ
̣
arímọ
̣
arịmó ̣
arí2̣
n.
a.
n.
v.t.
n.m.f
.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
arí2̣
ároo, aróḅaa
ároomọ, aróḅaamọ
arú
árụ
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.m.
arú ̣
arụ
arụ-aka
arụ-anga
arụ-asawọ
arụgbọlọ
arụ lẹ
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.pl.
n.m.
v.p.
arụlẹ
arụlẹḅọ
arụ-ọkụlọ
orụ-ó ̣kụlọḅa
n.
n.m.
n.
n.f.
bo
bo
arụtịḅị
angadọgụ-arụ
n.
n.
bo
bo
bála-arụ
ḅéken’arụ
fin-árụ
onweín-árụ
arụgụ
asaba
asaḅá
asakala
asalasa
asaman’alọ
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
n.
bo
bo
i
r
tp
bo
bo
bo
b
bo
bo
bo
ms
cl
dr
f
cl
agape
caterpillar; chrysalis; grub; larva; itch-mite
roam with hostile intent
bands of flat iron for fastening door-frames
and wall-plates
roam with hostile intent; wander about with
semi-lunacy; prowl
hostile roaming; prowling
big and long
witchcraft; sorcery
bewitch; witch; charm
witch; wizard; sorcerer
like a witch
make into a witch
develop badly in growth; grow crooked or
stunted (as stunted plantain or ingrowing
toenail)
bad development in growth
gape; stare; gaze curiously at; be aghast; gasp
agape; gaspingly
red
skink spp.
spathe or large bract (especially of coconut)
boat; canoe
seam of boat or canoe
side of boat or canoe
crew of canoe of ship
woodpecker
stamp a canoe to show its wood has been
legally cut
stamping of canoe
forest guard
bows of canoe or boat
active force of a boat or canoe, supposed to be
at the fore-end or bow
canoeful; canoeload
stern-wheeler; steamer propelled by two large
paddle-wheels at sides of stern
sailing-boat
launch
aeroplane
steamship; any ocean-going ship
masquerade type
men’s cloth of double size
pass over; straddle
straw hat
unidentified fish sp.
white cloth with faint stripes
19
(also arí sẹgị)
̣
Spotted, orangeflanked (Mabuya
perrotetii), and
five-lined (M.
quinquetaeniata
scharica) skinks
family Picidae
lit. "European boat"
ásan
n.m.
r
skink resembling arụ but without spots
asará
asáwaị
asáwọ
asáwọ
asáwọtọgụ
asele
aséri
n.m.
n.
n.pl.
a.
n.
n.
n.
t
ásigíya
n.
asíko
ásịfú ̣lụ
ásịngásị
n.
n.
n.
dc
cl
t
tall palm tree with growths still on stem
courting or courtship by a man
young men; yough
young; youthful
lad; young fellow
hut; hovel; shanty
hooking of the opponent with the foot in
wrestling
multicoloured strings of ornament adorning
big lampshades of old-time lamps and later
used for heads of masks
dance type
cloth resembling real india, but more silky
wild date palm
asu
ásun
asú ̣n1
asú ̣n-ịjagbá
asú ̣n2
asú ̣nyaị
atákoo
átambúra
atán
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
bo
p
da
ataná
atanáye
atanatanaḅá
atángbaị
atangbaị
átangbála
atánkoro
átarabúku
aténgi
1
aténgịogboloḅa
̣
2
aténgịogboloḅa
̣
atí
atígara
̣
atịtí ̣
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.i.
atịtí ̣
atịtí ̣
atịtímọ
̣
atịtịmó ̣
atói
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.f
.
n.
a.
n.m.
n.
atoluḅó ̣
atú ̣
atú ̣-oḅori
atụalí1̣
n.
a.
n.m.
n.m.
a
i
f
i
i
wp
tr
ga
i
dr
p
cr
da
ap
punting-pole; quant
fool; silly person; simpleton
horse
horsewhip
odour of fresh fish
odour of fresh fish
prick-eared
biting fly
cichlid sp.;
lay purlin on; wattle
purlin; wattle
cobweb
same as abá
same as abịa
black biting ant
darkness; gloom
gun
whispering spirit in bush
tickling play with children
grasshopper
power
richly-ornamented garment
wander about; be notoriously vagrant; roam;
ramble
vagabond; vagrant
vagabondage; vagrancy
vagrantly
make vagrant
one given to too much play
cassava plant with reddish stalk
fat-bellied
sickly fat-bellied goat
eggs of crab, carried under body by female
20
Blanding’s skink;
Mabuya blandingii
Phoenix reclinata.
Jacq. (Palmae) =
sịnya3
(= andókoo)
family Cichlidae.
cf. adi, elekéti,
ịtaḅalá, ọkpọtụḅa
atụalí2̣
n.
atụká
n.
atụká-atụka
a.
atụká koromọ
atụkákoromọ
átụngbabíạ
atú ̣ọ
áuun1
áuun1
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
áuun2
áuun2
áuunmọ1
áuunmọ2
áụụ
áụụmọ
aván
avukpa
a.
v.i.
adv.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
fg
?awakị(ḅa)
n.
fo
áwaráwa
áwọ1
áwọ2
áwọ3
áwọ4
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
bp
tp
tp
p
silk cloths bedecking the waist of a
masquerade
liquid potash got by lixiviating or filtration of
wood-ash
resembling colour of liquid potash due to
jaundice or yellow fever in body (of eyes or
urine)
lixiviate
lixiviating
red-legged land crab
gin locally distilled from palm wine; illicit gin
yawn; act of yawning
yawn; open mouth wide as effect of
drowsiness
rank; foul-smelling; olid; fetid
be rank; be foul-smelling
yawningly
rankly; fetidly
speed; rush; flow impetuously
speedily; fast
chest cavity
fish-trap, consisting of a fishing-rod bent
down and fixed as a spring trap
farina soaked in pepper oil and soup (=
okpúru)
cast-iron
pupil of eye:
pith of plant
cotyledon; seed-leaf
child
Awusá
n.m.f
.
a.
n.
n.m.
suf.
et
Hausa
co
cr
da
red
red cocoyam
rough-feathered chicken
suffix added to noun stems to form plurals
awú ̣
awú ̣ íkereḅuru
ayagịrị-ọḅó ̣kọ
-ayé
Ayeḅa
áyee!
áyou
kiríkubu ayou [?]
n.m.f
.
excl.
n.
n.
cl
c
dk
tọrú ̣ áwọ
Of Akassa origin
but still retained in
many proverbs:
áwọ lẹgịmọbó ̣ fịbó ̣
‘someone tricking a
child into eating is
an eater himself’;
áwọ seí sei nyingí
kuḅu ghọ seígha
‘however bad a
child is, it is not bad
in its mother’s
bosom’
(= -yaị) fịayé
‘eatables’ ḅouayé
‘drinkables’
Deity; God; the Lord
cr
exclamation expressing pain
garlic; onion
plant sp.
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<Portuguese ayo
Crimum jagus
(Amaryllidaceae)
lit. ‘ground-breastonion
azán1
azán2
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.
azị
azíza
̣
n.
n.
dr
v
azuzú1
azuzú2
n.
n.
cl
ayóu
p
f
child or person who cries often without good
cause
fish sp. resembling herring
specially carved stick for reeling thread for
weaving net
decorated headgear
climbing plant and its pungent fruits; Piper
guineensis
fan
print cloth bearing a pattern of fans
B, b
babá
babaláa
babaláa
babaláamọ
badagá, bádagáa
bádagáamọ
bádubádu
bádubádu
bádubádumọ
báfụ
báịbụl
bála1
bála-arụ
bálafindiye
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
bálatịn
bála tụa
bála2
n.
v.p.
v.i.
balá1
balá2
v.t.
n.m.
balị
balí ṭ ụn
bananaa
bananáámọ
baraíṇ
n.
v.p.
a.
adv.
adv.
baraíṇ
baraínmọ
̣
mịé ̣ baraínmọ
̣
baránbaran
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
baránbaran
baránbaranmọ
basá
báun
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
bo
bo
bo
bo
e
f
cut roughly
containing nothing; empty
become empty
emptily
(cf. bédẹgé
ẹ)
̣
̣ flat; spread out; level
flatly
gurgle loudly (as water from waterpot)
gurgling sound of water from waterpot
with a loud gurgle
basin; hollow round metal vessel
Holy Bible
sail of boat (traditionally square)
catboat; sailing boat
stick for spreading out sail; boom (diagonal to
a square sail)
mast for sail
set sail
carry chin in palm of hand and sit quietly
(sign of thoughtfulness or sadness)
speak to with warning; warn
fish sp.; West African ilisha (‘Cameroon
sardine or shade’)
keg of gunpowder
set powder ablaze
open; public
openly; publicly
clear; unclouded; plain; distinct; definite;
apparent; not confused; manifest
be clear; be apparent; grow clear
clearly; plainly; apparently; bluntly; roundly
make clear; clarity; elucidate; throw light on
transparent; clear; easily seen through;
unclouded
be transparent
transparently
make a case
make sound of fart
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<English
<Portuguese vala
Ilisha africana. cf.
ikpókpo
báun
báunmọ
be
n.
adv.
v.i.
sound of fart
sounding like a fart
ought; be obliged to (under any
circumstances):
bebe
bebemó ̣
bedegaa
bedegaamọ
bee
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
béguláa
béguláamo
bein1
beinkirígbolo
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
entire; whole; full; complete
wholly; entirely
wide (of hem of cloth)
widely
fathom of cloth tied to left or right side (by
men)
wide; broad
widely
bear; fruit (of plantain or banana only)
canary-banana
beinye
beinyaị
bein2
n.
pl.
n.
bein2
bein3
n.
a.
B. the terminal bud of palms; cabbage
full; replete; filled with; stuffed with; sated
with; abundant; copious
beinmó1̣
beinmó2̣
bena
adv.
v.t.
and
v.i.
adv.
fully; completely
fill; make full; block up; load; satisfy; satiate;
fill in; complete; fulfil; bring to
consummation; glut
just now.
bene
adv.
never (with negative verb always following):
benebene
beré
beré
never never
elegy; dirge; lamentation; lament
lament; express or feel grief for; mourn for a
loss; regret; moan
bẹgẹmó1̣
bẹgẹmó2̣
adv.
n.
v.t.
and
v.i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
and
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
bẹgẹmó3̣
a.
bébẹrẹ
̣
bédẹgé
ẹ,̣ bẹdẹgẹẹ
̣
bédẹgé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
bédị
̣
bẹgé ̣
fr
fr
tp
fruit (of trees in general)
?
A. bunch (of oil palm only):
be very rich
flat; low
low down = far down
bed
appear suddenly and take unawares; see
unexpectedly; take aback; startle
suddenly; abruptly
appear suddenly and take unawares; see
unexpectedly; take aback; startle
sudden; abrupt:
23
ẹrí be
̣ ḅo la or ẹrí ̣
be ḅo nafíạ ‘you
ought to have
come’
(lit. "fruit to touch
ground")
lụgú ̣ bein ‘palm
bunch’
bein fịtáa, bein
tịpáa ful full to the
brim bein wására
full to overflowing
contraction of be
wó ̣kụ na
á bene fịghá never
ate’; ị bene mịé ̣ na
fíaghá
‘ye never
̣
should have done
it’; bene fányụ
ḅaráfa ‘never
would finish’
(cf. bádagáa)
<English
bẹgẹmó ̣ fị ‘sudden
death’
bégụlẹẹ
̣
bẹnị
bẹnịmọ
bérị
̣
a.
n.
v.t.
v.i.,
bẹrí ̣
v.t.
bérịbé
rịmọ
̣
̣
bíin
adv.
v.i.
biló, biló
bilékuru, bilókuru
biléye, bilóye
tịḅịbileye,
tịḅịbiloye
bín
binmó ̣
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
fịníbinmọye
̣
biné
binemó ̣
birígila
birimuu
birimuu
biyokiri-ikagi
n.
v.i.
v.
n.
a.
n.
n.
r
bísọ
̣
n.
fg
bísọpụ
bíva
bịdịgí ̣
bịdígịbịdí
gị̣
̣
bịdígịbịdí
gịmọ
̣
̣
mịé ̣ bịdígịbịdí
gịmọ
̣
̣
bínyan
̣
n.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
bịnyan
v.t.
bínyanmọ
̣
bịnyánya
bịrịkịị
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
bịrịkịị
bịrịkịị
bịrịkíị́mọ
̣
bịsé ̣
a.
n.
adv.
a.
h
v.t.
v.t.
dr
broad and well-shaped (of buttocks)
shrub used in cookery; wild beniseed
display in public
sprawl; spread oneself; spread limbs out in
ungainly way; straddle; part legs widely
sprawl; spread oneself; spread limbs out in
ungainly way; straddle; part legs widely
with a sprawl
sink (of sun); disappear; evanesce; fade out of
sight; become effaced; be quenched; become
cleaned up or extinguished naturally
colour; dye; stain; tinge
dye-plant
dye
hair-dye
find or discover by chance
clean up; deface; efface; erase; obliterate; rub
out; wipe out; put out; extinguish; quench
fire extinguisher
enjoy oneself; have a spree
enjoy oneself
bugle
dusky; dim; shadowy
duskiness
serrate hingeback tortoise
stick attached to one end of a long pole called
numópụkọḅá, and on which harpoon or
fishing spear is finally fixed for fishing
bishop
top-hat
try problem independently
confused
confusedly
confuse; make or throw into disorder
meet; come face to face with; oppose in duel;
come by accident; come into contact; come
across
meet; come face to face with; oppose in duel;
come by accident; come into contact; come
across
closely by (come or go); very near
come with a bump against one another
gloom (of sky); lour; be dull or threatening;
appear darkly
gloomy; sullen; dismal; dark
gloominess
gloomily
all; every:
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Sesamum sp.
(= buló)
<English
Kinixys erosa. Also
recorded as ḅiekiri-ịkagị. cf.
ịkagị
<English
<English beaver
= bíyan
̣
= bịyan
ọ bịsé ̣ ḅóo ‘all of
you come’
bịsébịsẹ
̣
a.
all; altogether; wholly; totally; on the whole:
bíyan
̣
bịyan
bobó1
bobó1
bobó2
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
bódi
bódidọngọị
ḍiribodi
bodobodoo
n.
n.
n.
a.
bodobodóómọ1
bodobodóómọ2
bódoro
bomó ̣
bomó ̣
bomó ̣
odú bomọ
bómoroo
v.t.
adv.
n.
v.t.
n.
a.
v.p.
a.
= bínyan
̣
= bịnyan
pat; stroke tenderly with the hand
pat; stroking with hand as caress
beat drum with inner surface of fingers and
palm of hand
beat
oar
case of tobacco
lukewarm; tepid; mild; (of speech) not lively,
monotonous; (of wine) not sharp
make mild; make lukewarm
mildly; tepidly
butter
glorify; give praise; exalt; extol; eulogise
glory; praise; eulogy
glorious; illustrious
boast; brag; extol oneself
fat; corpulent and tall
bomoróbomoro
bóromuu
bóromúumọ
boromúboromu
bótokpóo
bótokpóomọ
bó ̣dọgó ̣ọ
bó ̣dọgóọ́ ̣mọ
bó ̣lị1
bó ̣lị2
bó ̣rọmụụ
a.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
fat; corpulent and tall
fat and watery
in a fat and watery manner
fat and watery
big and foolish
in a big and foolish way
calm (of sloop); doop
calmly (sleep); deeply
bowl; porringer
football; ball
very soft to the touch
bọrọmú ̣bọrọmụ
bọrụbọrụ
bọrụbọrụ
gbalí b
̣ ọrụbọrú ̣mọ
búa
buamó ̣ fẹ
buá1
buá2
bua
a.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
very soft to the touch
fat; plump; corpulent
be fat; be plump; be corpulent
fatten
become cheap
buy cheaply and in quantity
bail water in large quantities
paddle strongly
strike hand in water in a special manner to
collect crayfish among mangrove roots
buamó ̣
búaan
búaan
búaanmọ1
búaanmọ2
bubélebubéle
bubélebubéle
bubélebubélemọ
búbu
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
bo
ft
brush aside
conspicuously thick (as powder on face)
be conspicuously thick
conspicuously thickly
thicken (a smear)
thoughtless; mildly eccentric
thoughtlessness; mildly eccentric behaviour
thoughtlessly; eccentrically
dust; sprinkle with powder; make or apply
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á bịsébịsẹ
tán ḅo
̣
‘gather all of them’
<English
<English
(=
bomoróbomoro)
(= bómoroo)
= boromúboromu)
(= bóromuu)
<English bowl
<English ball
(=
bọrọmú ̣bọrọmụ)
(= bó ̣rọmụụ)
otóku bua ‘collect
crayfish by striking
water’
(= bú ̣aan)
powder
dust; sprinkle with powder; make or apply
powder
flog; beat; thrash
broad-chested
be broad-chested
sudden; unexpected
suddenly; unexpectedly
wake suddenly from sleep; spring up
sudden awakening from sleep; springing up
with a spring
flash (of fire); kindle; flare up; catch fire;
burst into flame or blaze; blaze up
flash; sudden transitory blaze
with a flash
flicker; (of fire) flash and die away by turns;
(of flag) wave to and from
bubú1
v.t.
bubú2
búgaláa
búgaláa
bugée
bugéemọ
bugubugúu
bugubugúu
bugubugúumọ
buláa
v.t.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
búgaláa
buláamọ
búlabúla
n.
adv.
v.i.
búlabúlamọ
adv.
flickeringly
búlangíi
búlangíimọ
bulángibulángi,
búlangibúlangi
bulángibulángimọ,
búlangibúlangimọ
bulé
bulúku
anda bulukú
bulúkubulúku
bulúu
bulúubulúu
bún1
bún2
bunáa
búnabuna
búnabunamọ
búngaa
búngaamọ
búngaabungaa
búngaabungaa
búngaabungaamọ
búngaraa
a.
adv.
v.i.
very wide (of cloth)
widely (of sewing of cloth)
flicker
(cf. búlabúla)
adv.
flickeringly
(= búlabúlamọ)
colour; dye; stain
blouse for women
skirt worn by wrestlers for wrestling
meddle; busy oneself unduly (with); interfere
blue powder
bluish; of blue colour
beetle
fool; idiot; imbecile
same as buláa
flicker
flickeringly
luxuriant; exuberant
luxuriantly
rapid of growth
be rapid of growth
rapidly (of growth)
very wide and broad (of leaves); very wide
and large (of ears)
hairy; woolly
thickly smeared
pursue; hold; catch
dusty; finely powdered like dust; of fine
grains; powdery
pulverize; reduce to powder or dust
thick
thickly
squid
actual; exact
(= bilé, biló)
v.t.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
búnubunu
búnwaa
burú
buruburú
a.
a.
v.t.
a.
mịé ̣ buruburúmọ
búrukúu
búrukúumọ
búrumizi
busunú
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
co
dr
dr
i
p
f
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(= bunáa, and cf.
bụláa)
(= bú ̣labú ̣la, and
cf. búnabuna,
bú ̣nabụna)
(=
bulángibulángimọ)
(= bú ̣lụkụbụlụkụ)
<English
(of fire only)
(cf. búaan)
(= bụrụbụrú ̣)
(of hair or bush)
order Teuthida
busunúmọ
búun1
búun1
búun2
búun2
búunmọ
búza
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
f
bụáa
búza
v.i.
n.
f
bụáa
bú ̣aan
bú ̣gẹléẹ̣
n.
a.
v.i.
bụláa
v.i.
bụláamọ
adv.
bú ̣labú ̣la
v.i.
bú ̣labú ̣la
bụlángịdị
bú ̣lụkụbụlụkụ
bụnáa
n.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
bụnáa
bú ̣nabú ̣na
n.
v.i.
bụrẹn
bụrẹn
bụrénmọ
̣
bú ̣rẹnbú ̣rẹn
bú ̣rẹnbú ̣rẹnmọ
bụrụbụrú ̣
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
bú ̣ụn
bú ̣ụn
bú ̣ụnmọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
actually; exactly
buzz; hum; make humming sound
buzz; hum of bee and other insects
dust; finely powdered earth
dusty; full of dust
dustily
sardine
make sound of fart
Madeiran sardinella
sound of fart
conspicuously thick (as powder on face)
develop; make progress from a latent to an
active state of growth (especially of a child)
(of fire) flash; kindle; flare up; catch fire;
burst into flame or blaze; blaze up; move or
pass like a flash
with a flash; (of movement) immediately;
instantly
(of flag) wave to and fro
flickering; waving
blanket
meddle; interfere
flash (of fire); kindle; flare up; catch fire;
burst into flame or blaze; blaze up
flash; sudden transitory blaze
(of flag) wave to and fro
grow clear; become clear (by burning, etc.)
clear; open; unobstructed
(burnt) clear
not thick; scanty (of hair or bush)
scantily
dusty; finely powdered like dust; of fine
grains; powdery
buzz; make humming sound
buzz; hum of bee or beetle
with a buzz
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Sardinella
maderensis =
gbódo2. cf. afarụ1,
ikerere,
kparakpará, kigbo
Sardinella
maderensis. =
gbódo, kigbo. cf.
afarụ, ikerere,
kparakpará
(= búaan)
(cf. buláa)
(= búlabúla)
<English
(cf. bulúkubulúku)
(= buláa)
(= búlabúla)
(= buruburú)
B ,ḅ
ḅa1
v.t.
ḅa1
n.
ḅa1
ḅa1
ḅa1
ḅa1
ft
A. annihilate; destroy; kill; massacre; murder;
slay; slaughter; swat (fly); put an end to
(feelings, vitality of plant or disease);
neutralize the effect of; overwhelm person by
one’s beauty, personality, etc.; make someone
overcome with amusement; fatally harm with
mistaken kindness; totally finish a case
annihilation; massacre; murder; slaughter;
slaying; carnage
B. break; shatter; smash; flatten out (high
ground)
C. catch (fish)
D. anaesthetise; render insensible
E. give first antiseptic treatment to wound:
ḅa1
kipper; cure (meat, fish by splitting open,
rubbing with salt and drying in sun; pickle:;
preserve flesh in brine:
ḅa1
F. bet:
ḅa1
ḅa1
ḅa1
ḅá2
ḅá2
n.
ḅadéde
ḅadédeḅadéde
ḅadéde-ebí
n.
adv.
n.
ḅadéde pụkọpụkọ
adv.p
.
n.
n.
n.
ḅálẹgẹ
ḅá-osuo
ḅátugu
ḅáw’ẹríya,
̣ ḅ’ẹẹríya
̣
bet; wager
G. fart
H. in combination:
dawn; begin to grow light
break of day; daybreak; dawn; morrow;
tomorrow
morning
very early
morning glory (e.g. of wealth which does not
last)
very early in the morning
v.i.
n.
ḅá3
n.
t
ḅá4
v.t.
dc
ḅaḅá
ḅágaa
ḅágaamọ
n.
a.
adv.
go
day-star; morning star
morning twilight
morning twilight
(lit. "we see tomorrow") goodnight; goodbye;
farewell; adieu
timber tree; abura
dance; hence ingelenge ḅá, i.e. dance
ingelenge step
calabash
lazy; indolent; slothful
lazily
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indí ḅa ‘catch fish’
ịnọ ḅá ‘treat a
wound’;
nama ḅá ‘pickle
meat’ nama ḅa fú ̣
‘pickle (especially
brine)’
ḅará ḅa ‘make a
bet’
pumbó ḅa ‘fart’
ḅa saí ‘lead
in bulk’
̣
Hallea ledermannii
(K. Krause) Verdc.;
Syn. Mitragyna
ledermannii (K.
Krause) Ridsdale or
M. ciliate Aubrév.
& Pellegr. (name
also applied to H.
stipulosa)
(Rubiaceae)
?< Igbo
ḅagaráa
ḅagaráa
ḅagaráamọ
ḅágaraḅagara
ḅágiriḅagiri
ḅágiriḅagiri
ḅágiriḅagirimọ
ḅagiríi
ḅáguluḅagulu
ḅáguluḅagulu
ḅáguluḅagulumọ
ḅágulúu
ḅágulúumọ
ḅágụ
ḅágụ
ḅágụ
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
smart; quick to take advantage; brisk
be smart; be quick to take advantage
smartly
smart; quick to take advantage
energetic
be energetic
energetically; strenuously
robust; big
flexuous; full of bends; undulating
bend in and out; be crooked
crookedly
flexuous; serpentine; crooked
crookedly
take breakfast
A. be beaten
B. eat: hence
ḅịḅị ḅágụ
ḅịḅịḅágụ
imbi ḅagú ̣
v.p.
n.
v.p.
eat
act of eating
eat
imbiḅagú ̣
imbiḅagụyé
ḅagú1̣
ḅagú1̣
n.
n.
v.i.
ḅagú2̣
ḅagú2̣
v.i.
ḅagụ
ḅágụlú ̣ụ
v.t.
v.i.
ḅágụlú ̣ụ
a.
ḅáị, ḅáịịo
ḅáị ka ḅẹghá
ḅaị
excl.
excl.
adv.
act of eating
stick for cracking kernel
A. struggle; jostle (of fish in canoe)
B. have beating effect (in body or head, as
after strenuous work or in headache)
A. bloom; blossom; flower
B. grow; spring up; sprout (as skin disease
like yaws) from body
beat; box; buffet; ram
be swollen; be bunged up (especially of eyes);
be closed with swelling from blow
swollen; bunged up; closed with swelling
from blow
good-bye; goodnight; adieu; farewell
goodbye (but not for long)
whether; maybe:
ḅáịde
ḅaká
ḅákaḅaka
n.
v.i.
a.
ḅákaḅaka
v.i.
mịé ̣ ḅákaḅákamó ̣
v.t.
ḅákaḅákamọ
adv.
ḅákala
v.i.
(= ḅágaraḅagara)
(= ḅagaráa)
(cf. ḅagiríi)
(cf. ḅágiriḅagiri)
(cf. ḅágulúu)
(cf. ḅáguluḅagulu)
imbi ḅagụ
ó ḅágụyó ‘he is
eating’
lit. "beat kernel";
(idiom)
early morning
be busy about
bewildering; complicated; confounding;
confusing; perplexing; puzzling
to be bewildered; complicated; confounded;
confused; perplexed; puzzled
bewilder; complicated; confound; confuse;
mix up in the mind; perplex; puzzle; throw
into disorder
confusedly; confusingly; in a complicated
way
coil; entwist; twist; twine; entwine; wind;
wrap; enwrap; enfold or swathe in; swaddle;
lap; bend; incline:
29
(= ḅáwẹríya)
̣
ó ḅonyụ ḅaị á
nimighá ‘I don’t
know whether he
will come’
ḅakalá
v.t.
ḅákala
a.
furó ḅákalá
furóḅákalá
ḅákalaḅákala
n.
n.
a.
ḅakalámọ
v.t.
ḅakalamó ̣
ḅakalamọyé
ḅákụḅákụ
ḅákụḅákụḅó ̣
ḅalá
ḅala, ḅalaḅió
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.m.
n.
n.
ḅalafá
ḅalafá
ḅalafámọ
ḅalafamọ
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
mịé ̣ ḅalafamó ̣
kụró ̣ḅala
v.t.
n.
ḅaláḅala
ḅaláḅala
ḅalaḅala
v.i.
n.
v.t.
ḅalayaị
ḅalayaị fié
ḅálelée, ḅélelée
n.
v.p.
a.
childish way of talking imperfectly
talk imperfectly, as child
skew; cross (of eyes); slanting; oblique;
squinting; looking different ways:
ḅálị
v.i.
v.i.
squint; have strabismus; be cross-eyed
eat in conjunction with or together with other
food
ḅálịyé
n.
ḅáluḅálu
v.i.
ḅalúu1
v.i.
ft
fo
coil; entwist; twist; twine; entwine; wind;
wrap; enwrap; enfold or swathe in; swaddle;
lap; bend; incline:
bent; crooked; not straight; twisted; skew;
awry; oblique
have severe griping pains in belly
severe griping pains in belly; colic; tormina
sinuous; tortuous; serpentine; circuitous;
winding; flexuous; meandering; crooked; not
straightforward; devious; cunning; subtle;
treacherous
adhere to; stick to; cleave to; cling to (by
grasping); persist in; continue firmly in
reel; shuttle; wind round
reel; shuttle
stammer; stutter
stammerer; stutterer
stick of dried fish
fear; powerful emotion caused by impending
danger or evil; state of alarm
be afraid; be alarmed; be frightened; fear
timid; timorous
alarmingly; timidly; timorously; fearfully
alarming; appalling; awful; dreadful; fearful;
fearsome; terrible
frighten; alarm; appal
alarm; apprehension; awe; dread; excited
anticipation of danger; fright; great or sudden
fear; violent terror; consternation
show faint morning light
faint morning light
avoid; shun; refrain from something:
food (like fish, meat, oil, etc.) that is eaten
with plainer food to add flavour; relish
blink (of eyes) in an effort to control or shed
tears; blink away tears
blink; move the eyelids (more deliberate than
30
e.g. ḅalafamọ yé
ikúli fí ḅalaḅala,
̣
fóụ́ ̣n pigiri ‘in
shunning death,
ikuli (a small fish)
lands on the ashes’
i.e. ‘out of the
frying-pan into the
fire’
(cf. ḅékelée)
ḅálelee tọrụ
‘squint-eyed; crosseyed’
indí ẹkị ḅálị ‘eat
with fish’; puló ẹkị
ḅálị ‘eat with oil’
dá ẹkị ḅálị abusive
slang (lit. "take and
add flavour")
?ḅaluḅalú (Ez.)
ḅalúu1
ḅalúumọ
ḅalúu2
n.
adv.
v.i.
ḅalúu2
ḅalúumọ
ḅalúuḅalúu
ḅalúuḅalúumọ
ḅálụḅálụ
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
ḅalú ̣ụ1
v.i.
ḅalú ̣ụ1
ḅalú ̣ụ2
n.
v.i.
ḅalú ̣ụ2
ḅámọ
n.
v.t.
ḅamó ̣
v.t.
ḅamó ̣
ḅará
n.
n.
ḅará ḅa
ḅaráḅa
ḅaráḅara1
ḅaráḅara2
ḅaráḅara3
ḅará ḅẹlị
ḅará gbala
ḅarágbala
ḅáragú ̣ụ
ḅáragú ̣ụmọ
ḅaráḅiri1
ḅaráḅiri2
ḅará ḅọgó ̣
v.p.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.p.
v.p.
n.m.
a.
adv.
n
n.
ḅará ḅọgó ̣
ḅaráḅogọ
n.
a.
ḅaráḅụtarí ̣
ḅará-ẹḅẹrẹḅaḅio
ḅará-e1gbẹgị
ḅará ékị
̣
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
ḅalú ̣ụ)
blink; movement of eyelids
with a blink
flash (of gun, lightning); give out flame or
sparks (stronger than ḅalú ̣ụ)
flash; sudden short blaze
with a flash
flash and die away by turns (of lightning)
flickeringly
close and open eyes very quickly and
continuously (less deliberate than ḅáluḅálu);
twinkle; shine intermittently
blink; wink; close and open eyes momentarily
(less deliberate than ḅalúu1)
blink; wink
flash faintly (of lightning, etc.); flicker
(weaker than ḅalúu2)
faint flash; flicker
smash (with egg or wine) on to something;
smear (the face of something with powder or
chalk)
leave (till break of day):
bp
tr
bp
next day
arm; foreleg; hand; handle (of pot, pail, mug,
etc.); "hand" working on ship, canoe-paddler;
work done or thing made by somebody; style
of writing; round (in boxing, wrestling, etc.);
bout or spell; one stage in competition; way or
method
bet; wager
bet; wager
with hand
different; various
be much handled
meet favourable situation
tie hands
god of penury or poverty
knock-kneed
in a knock-kneed manner
one-half jar
upper arm
be dislocated (of arm);
dislocation of arm
too much; extravagant; exorbitant
bp
bp
selfishness
space between fingers
inner part of elbow
shake hands
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wọrị ene ḅamó ̣ọ
‘leave it till break
of day’
lit. ‘lick hand’
ḅarámị, í ghọ
̣
ḅó ̣gọté ̣ ‘my arm is
dislocated’
(lit. "pass-hand")
ḅará ḅụ tarí be
̣
selfish
(= ḅarányaịnmọ)
ḅará-ẹkịya
ḅará famọ
ḅaráfamọ
ḅará farị
ḅaráfarị
ḅaráfịrị
ḅará gbarị
ḅará ghọ fá
ḅará ghọ seí
ḅarághọseí
ḅara-íkuli
ḅará-iri
ḅará írí
ḅará-ịkalị
ḅará-ịkpụkụ
ḅará-ịkụtị
n.
v.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
ḅará jigeghá
v.p.
ḅarákasị
ḅarákoríyamọndị
ḅarákoríyamọndịḅ
ọ́
ḅarákọngọ
ḅará kpatị
ḅarákuḅu
ḅará la
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
ḅará na
ḅarányaịnmọ
ḅará-ọbụ
ḅará polomọ
ḅará polomọ
ḅarápẹlẹ, ḅarápélẹ
̣
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
ḅará sara
ḅarásin
v.p.
v.p.
ḅarásụn
ḅarásụngbalị
ḅarátẹíṇ
ḅarátịḅị
ḅarátịḅịmọ
ḅarátịḅị nyana
ḅarátịḅịnyana
ḅarátongu
n.
n.
a.
a.
adv.
v.p.
n.
n.
ḅarátọn-yọ
n.
ḅará na ḅụ
bp
bp
bp
bp
dr
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
handshake
expend; waste
expenditure
applaud; clap hands
applause; clapping
handiwork
miss opportunity
be asleep; be dead
be liable; mistake
mistake
biceps muscle of upper arm
lapse; slip of hand or pen
make slip of hand or pen
wrist-bone at the outer side of the little finger
elbow-bone
claw-hands (i.e. fingers curled like claws);
knuckles
retaliate
lit. "did not shake
hand"
style of women’s blouse with gathered sleeves
intimate or faithful friendship
faithful or intimate friend
wrist
be niggardly; be close-fisted
palm (of hand); handful
be possessed; be got; be had (lit. "reach
hand")
by oneself; consciously; intentionally;
knowingly; in a knowing manner
by oneself
inner part of elbow
back of palm or hand
fillip; flip (tops, etc.); snap fingers
flip; fillip; snapping of fingers
sleeveless;
hurry up; be quick; make haste; speed up
let go; let off; acquit; discharge; leave;
abandon; give up; liberate; release; relinquish;
loose hold of; leave off; discontinue; resign;
surrender
forearm
finger
supreme; highest
independent
independently
be or become independent
independence
elbow
handy or convenient place
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(= ḅaráégbẹgị)
̣
ḅarápẹlẹ fọrọkọ
‘sleeveless singlet’
(lit. ‘hand off’)
(the whole elbow,
while ḅará-ịkpụkụ
is the bone only)
ḅará tụa
v.p.
aid; assist; help; abet:
ḅarátụapríbọ
̣
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
helper; assistant
ḅarátụapríye
̣
ḅarátụayé
ḅará wagị
ḅaráwọrịyaí ̣
opuḅará
papaḅará
fíaghaḅara
̣
gbọrịḅará
aní ḅ
̣ ara
mí ḅ
̣ ara
yefịḅará
ebíḅara
ḅióḅara
ye-ghọ-ḅióḅara
odú-ghọ-ḅióḅara
n.
n.
n.
adv.
n.
adv.p
.
n.
adv.
adv.
n.
n.p.
n.p.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
odú-ghọ-ḅióḅara
n.
mí ḅara timí
a.p.
ḅará2
n.
ḅara
n.
ámaḅára
éreḅára
kọndọḅará
kalaḅára
kalaḅará
opu ḅára
help; aid; assistance
ring; bangle; bracelet
retaliate; return evil
slips of bamboo with which roof-mats are
stitched
right hand
left hand
left hand
in a small way; lightly
hour-hand (of clock) small hand
in a big way; lengthily; loudly; greatly
(of clock) minute hand; big hand
empty-handed
in an unfavourable way; unfavourably
(lit. "one hand") one and the same; the same
that is so; that way
thus; this way
right hand
properly; thoroughly
forget; lose remembrance of; put out of mind
forgetfulness
forget oneself; neglect one’s own interest; act
unbecomingly or unworthily; lose
consciousness
forgetting oneself; neglecting one’s own
interest; acting unbecomingly or unworthily;
losing consciousness
similar to or like (this); of the same kind or
degree (as this); such (as this)
like; in the manner of; to the same degree as
as; in the same degree; so; to a degree that
demands exclamatory emphasis; in that state;
as far as:
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(lit. "put hand")
ḅará tụa kụmọ prí ̣
‘help someone’
= kpịsịkpịsị
(lit. "man-hand")
(lit. "woman-hand")
ḅará usually ends a
noun or pronoun
phrase: indí ḅara
ékị
̣ oki ‘swim like a
fish’; aní` ḅara ékị
̣
ḍugó kụma ‘don’t
talk like that’
ó ḅẹ ḅara ‘as he
said’; ó ikiomọ
ḅarámị, aíṇ wó ̣ fa
‘it is not as he
thinks’; aní ḅará
̣
an? aní ḅará
‘is
̣
that so? that is so’;
mí ḅará
‘in this
̣
way, thus’; akáma
ḅara ékị
̣
̣ fịrí mọndị
‘be busy as a bee,
work like a bee’; á
ḅióḅélẹ
̣ ḅara! ‘I am
ḅaraḅara
adv.
however; in whatever way; to whatever
extent.
ḅará ineghá
adv.p
.
too much:
ḅaráfa
adv.p
.
not (always used with the future suffix -nyụ
‘will, shall, may, might, can’):
ḅaraḅá
ḅarága
ḅarámḅụ
n.
n.
adv.
ḅarí ̣
v.t.
ḅarị1
v.t.
ḅarị1
n.
ḅarị2
oru ḅarí ̣
gbóyaị ḅarị
ḅará ḅarị
ḅịḅị ḅarí ̣
ḅarị3
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
ḅarị3
ḅarị4
ḅarị5
conj.
adv.
hi
la
tr
tr
tr
tr
tr
pestle
two banks of a creek; left or right bank
as soon as; immediately.
add (shot, spear, etc.) to struggling animal or
fish to overcome it
make a small present of some sort to; tip;
demand a small present
small present of some sort (usually edible
one); tip
pay vows to a deity
recompense gods
fulfil vows to a deity
take off the touch of a god
take off a curse
tap or draw sap from a tree (especially palm)
by cutting into it:
‘tap raffia palm’; as n., ‘tapping of raffia
palm’
and
(in positive expressing) again; another time;
once more:
ḅarị5
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so glad!’
At times the
principal verb is
repeated alternately
with ḅara: á fie
ḅara fie ḅara, ó
ḅọú ̣gha = á fie
ḅaraḅara, ó
ḅọú ̣gha ‘however I
spoke, he never
agreed’
ó mịé ̣ ḅará ineghá
‘he did too much
(very much)’ (N ote:
ineghá may be a
contraction of ine
ḅịḅị ékị
̣ gbágha
‘cannot express
with mouth’.)
ó mịényụ
ḅará fa
̣
‘he will not do it,
there is no way for
him to do it’; aíṇ
inetẹ
kụkụḅaịyenyụ
ḅará fa ‘it cannot
be true’
contraction of
ḅarámịḅụ
= ḅarịmó ̣
kọrọ ḅarí ̣
á ḅarị fịnyú ̣ ‘I will
eat again, once
more, another
time’; (in negative
expression) not ...
again; nevermore:
á ḅarị fịghá ‘I will
not eat again; I will
nevermore eat; I
will never eat any
more’
ḅárịḅárị
ḅarịmó ̣
ḅarịmó ̣ mịé ̣
ḅátaka
ḅátakaḅataka
ḅatú ̣
ḅatụmó ̣
ḅáu
adv.
adv.
v.t.
a.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
ḅáu
ḅáụ
ḅáụ
n.
a.
v.i.
ḅaú ̣
n.
pp
ḅaú ̣ḅọ
ḅaú ̣ḅọ
ḅékefụla
ḅékefụla sara
ḅege
ḅege
ḅege koro
ḅegemó1̣
ḅegemó2̣
ḅege sụọ
n.f.
a.
n.
v.p.
v .i.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
k
ḅege tamá
-ḅeí
v.i.
det.
again and again; time and again; repeatedly
repeatedly
do again; repeat; do performance over again
sticky; viscid; viscous; gummy
sticky; viscid; viscous; gummy
wither; become dry and shrivelled up
wither; cause to dry up
fall with or make low dull sound; thwack;
whack
thud; low dull sound; thwack; whack
sour; of acid taste; tasteless
(of mouth) taste sour, as after eating unripe
fruit
daughter (f.); sucker; tiller (of rice-plant);
sapling
daughter
of a daughter
squirt of spittle through teeth
squirt or eject spittle through teeth
fall; cease to stand
fall
fall down
cause to fall; fell; cut down (tree); blow down
fall upon; attack; assault
fall in; cave in; give way inwards (of building
or person)
stagger; totter
the (masc. def. art.)
ḅeí
dem.
this
ḅeíḅei
pron.
this masc. dem. pron.
ḅeíghaḅeígha
ḅéke
ḅékeḅọ
ḅékekiri
ḅéke-imbi
a.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
ḅéke-imbípembu
ḅékeḅịḅị
ḅékenama
ḅéken’ama
ḅéken’ongu-ama
ḅéken’ofoni
ḅékenogboin [?]
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ḅéken’ogboin
ḅéken’ogboín
ḅékewarị
n.
n.
n.
et
et
indescribably big
English; European
European; white man
fr
factory
coconut palm, ‘European palm-nut’
et
et
da
t
coconut frond
English language; any European language
pickled or canned meat
England; Europe; Whiteman’s country
England; Europe; Whiteman’s country
duck; any English breed of fowl
mango tree?
fr
fr
a
imported mango varieties
imported English mango varieties
house built in European fashion with
et
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(= ḅátakaḅataka)
(= ḅátaka)
(cf. yaíḅọ)
̣
tó ̣gụḅei ḅoyó ‘the
boy is coming’
ḅeí tọgụ ebí ‘this
boy is good’
ḅeíḅei sei tó ̣gụ ‘this
is a bad boy’
(pl.) ḅéken’ongu
Cocos nucifera
Linn. (Palmae)
Mangifera indica
(Anacardiaceae)
ḅékelée
a.
ḅékelée
ḅékeléemọ
ḅéken’okiringa1
ḅéken’okiringa2
ḅeleḅelé
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
ḅeleḅelémọ
ḅeleḅelémọ
ḅelegí
v.t.
adv.
v.i.
and
v.t.
n.
v.i.
ḅelegí
ḅeléleḅeléle
ḅeléleḅeléle
ḅeléleḅelélemọ
ḅeréreḅerére,
ḅérereḅerere
ḅeréreḅeréremọ,
ḅérereḅereremọ
ḅerí
n.
adv.
v.i.
ḅeríḅeri
ḅerífa
ḅeríghọsụọ
ḅerí ghọ sụọ
ḅerínọ
ḅerípẹrẹ
ḅerí sara
ḅerísara
a.
a.
a.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
ḅerísará
a.
ḅerí sin
ḅerísin
ḅerí tẹngẹlé ̣
v.p.
a.
v.p.
ḅerítẹngẹlẹyé
ḅerí tịẹmọ
ḅerí toun pogí
ḅerítugu
ḅerí tugu
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
adv.p
.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
and
v.i.
adv.
ḅerítụaye
ḍiriḅerí
tịnḅerí
ḅéria, ḅería
ḅériamọ, ḅeríamọ
cr
wink; blink; turning away with closed eyes
dartle; dart about (of fish struggling from the
effect of fish poison); try to focus eyes (of a
cross-eyed person)
darting about; effort to focus eyes
with a dart
grope about as in dark; search blindly; act as
if insane
gropingly
adv.
n.
corrugated iron sheets
skew (of eyes); oblique; crossed; slanting;
asquint
squint; have strabismus
obliquely; slantingly
cultivated cotton plant
cotton wool for wounds
(of fencing, or strands of weaving) wide apart,
separate
make widely apart
widely apart
wink; blink; turn away with closed eyes (in
annoyance)
bp
d
bp
tp
dr
tp
tp
ear; leaf; barb (of arrow, fish-hook); (small
and fixed) handle (s of cooking-pot)
leafy; eared
leafless; earless
noisy
make much noise
earache; pain in ear
ear-drum
shed leaves
(of plants) deciduous; shedding leaves
periodically
quick at understanding (esp. foreign
languages)
make much noise
noisy
tickle ear-drum with something soft, e.g.
feather
material used for tickling ear-drum
prick up ears
hearken; listen to attentively
axil (of plants)
(speak) in the ear
earring
foliage; leaf
foliage; leaf (of tree)
rejoice; feel great joy; make merry
rejoicingly
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(cf. ḅálelee)
ḅériḅéri
ḅériyé
ḅé1̣
n.m.
n.
v.t.
ḅé`ḅụḅẹḅụ
ḅéḅụḅẹḅụmọ
̣
ḅẹé ̣
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
and
v.i.
f
nibble; pick at food
nibblingly
(sometimes ḅé ̣ 2.)
ḅẹé ̣
ḅéghamẹnẹ
̣
ḅẹé ̣
ḅ’éẹrí
̣ ḅé ̣
̣ ya
ḅẹé ̣ ye mịẹ
v.t.
ḅẹéyemịẹ
̣
ḅẹéyemịẹ
̣
ḅẹé ̣
a.
n.
v.t.
ḅẹéyemịẹ
̣
n.
ḅẹé ̣ táan
ḅémọ
̣
v.p.
v.t.
ḅéye
̣
kụmọ ḅé ̣
n.
v.p.
kụmọḅé ̣
n.
ọbú ̣ ghọ ḅé ̣
v.p.
ḅẹẹ
ḅẹẹ ḅẹẹ
ḅégẹrẹ
̣
ḅẹgụra
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
ḅẹífie
ḅẹífieḅẹífie
ḅẹífieḅẹf@iemọ
ḅẹké ̣
ḅẹké ̣
ḅélẹ
̣ 1
ḅẹlẹmó ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
fish sp.; hammer-headed shark
beam; wall-plate
regard (in ẹkị ye ḅé);̣ look upon with
reverence; esteem; respect; think highly of;
give heed to:
v.p.
v.p.
wp
t
co
A. say; speak; utter; make specified remark;
state; express
(introducing reported speech) said; saying
B. bid; tell to; ask to do; send; command to
say or bid goodnight or farewell
obey; do what one is bidden (sent, told,
commanded, etc.)
obedient; dutiful; submissive to another’s will
obedience; submission to another’s rule
C blame; chide; censure; rebuke; reprimand;
reprove
blame; chiding; censure; rebuke; reprimand;
reproof
receive or bear blame
forebode (in ẹkị ye ḅémọ);
betoken; augur;
̣
indicate; portend; signify; presage;
foreshadow; have presentiment of
saying; remark; adage
gossip about someone; backbite; talk idly
about someone; slander; defame; libel
gossip; idle talk; groundless rumours;
backbiting; slander; false and malicious oral
defamation; scandal; irrelevant abusive
statement; libel; published statement
damaging to a person’s reputation
talk behind someone’s back; backbite; speak
ill of; slander; defame falsely; make scandal
about; libel; accuse falsely and maliciously;
gossip; tattle; talk idly about someone
bleat (as sheep or goat)
bleat (as of sheep or goat); bleating
javelin; lance; pike; spear
early dry season (December to early January)
when nights are very cold
for ever; ad infinitum; all the time
everlasting; lasting for ever
everlastingly
tree sp.
yellow in colour
itch; feel irritation in the skin
irritate; produce uneasy sensation in body
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Sphyrna spp.
ó á fieyémị ékị
̣ ye
ḅẹghá ‘he does not
regard my advice’;
ó ịní ẹ́ kị
̣ ye ḅẹghá
‘he has no regard
(respect, esteem)
for me’
ḅélẹḅé
lẹ
̣
̣
ḅélẹ
̣ 2
n.
a.
ḅélẹ
̣ 2
n.
ḅélẹghá
̣
a.
1
ḅélẹmọ
̣
adv.
(mịẹ2@) ḅẹlẹmó ̣
ḅẹlẹmó2̣
ḅẹlẹmó ̣ḅịḅị
ḅẹlẹmó ̣ ḍẹrí ̣
ḅịḅị ḅẹlẹmó ̣
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅịḅịḅẹlẹmọ
n.
fr
ḅẹlẹ
ḅẹlẹ-ọbụ
ḅẹlẹtịẹmọye
ḅẹlẹtugu
n.
n.
n.
n.
po
po
hi
po
ḅẹlẹtụọḅó ̣
ḅẹlẹtụọwarí ̣
ḅẹlégị
̣
n.m.f
.
n.
v.i.
ḅẹlẹgí ̣
ḅẹlégị
̣
v.t.
a.
ḅẹlẹgí
ḅẹlẹgída
̣
ḅẹlẹụ1
ḅẹlẹụ seí
ḅẹlẹụseí
ḅẹlẹụtugú
ḅẹlẹụtugú pélẹghá
̣
n.
n.
n.
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
n.
v.p.
fieḅẹlẹú ̣
ḅẹlẹụ2
ḅẹlẹụ2
n.
n.
a.
ḅẹlẹụ ḅọgó1̣
v.p.
ḅẹlẹụ ḅọgó2̣
adv.p
.
v.p.
ḅẹlẹụ dá
d
to
d
bp
itch; almost any kind of irritation in the skin
dainty; delicious; flavourful; savoury;
palatable; sweet; pleasant; nice; tasteful;
harmonious; melodious; tuneful; musical;
interesting
dainty; delicacy; appetizing flavour; relish;
distinctive taste; sweet; sweetness; attractive
quality
tasteless; not palatable; insipid; tuneless;
unmelodious
daintily; deliciously; palatably; pleasantly;
nicely; melodiously; tunefully; musically;
interestingly; sweetly
sweeten; give relish; make piquant
entertain; amuse
conversation; confabulation
deride
chat with; converse; confabulate; indulge in
easy familiar talk
pineapple
Ananas comosus.
ḅịḅịḅẹlẹmó ̣
pot; vessel for cooking
back of pot
trivet; iron tripod
bottom of pot; food remaining at bottom of
pot
cook
kitchen
heave up and turn over; upturn; turn up (soil
or river water)
same above
heaved up; upturned; (of chest) pigeonbreasted
Igbo axe used for carving canoes
chest pain (treated with heated axe)
tongue
be furred or dirty (of tongue)
furred or dirty tongue
fraenum of tongue
be tongue-tied:
spoken language
first; lead; the future; time to come; the front
first; front; future; preceding; forward;
onward
take first or leading place in competition; have
the front or lead; precede
too forward
lead the way; go first, take the lead; conduct;
guide; captain
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kụmó ̣ḅei ḅẹlẹtugu
pẹlẹghá ‘the man
does not talk
clearly’
ḅẹlẹụdú ̣
ḅẹlẹụ ḅómọ
ḅẹlẹụ ékị
̣
ḅẹlẹụ mú
ḅẹlẹụsaịsaị
yoúḅẹlẹụ
ḅẹlẹụ3
abadíḅẹlẹụ
̣
ḅaráḅẹlẹụ
ḅoúḅẹlẹụ
n.m.f
.
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ḅụọḅẹlẹụ
piríḅẹlẹụ
n.
n.
tịḅịḅẹlẹụ
n.
ḅẹlí1̣
v.i.
ḅẹlí2̣
ḅịḅị ḅẹlí ̣
ḅẹlí3̣
ḅẹlí3̣
ḅélụkẹẹ
̣
ḅẹlú ̣ụ
v.i.
and
v.t.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
ḅẹlú ̣ụ
ḅẹlú ̣ụmọ
ḅẹlú ̣ụḅẹlú ̣ụ
n.
adv.
v.i.
ḅẹlú ̣ụḅẹlú ̣ụ
ḅẹlú ̣ụḅẹlú ̣ụmọ
ḅẹrẹ1
ḅẹrẹ-angá
ḅẹrẹ2
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
ḅẹlẹụdaḅó ̣
ḅẹrẹ2
ḅẹrẹḅẹrẹ
ḅẹrẹ ḍọgí ̣
ḅẹrẹ ḍugó
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅẹrẹ-ebí
ḅẹrẹ pẹlé ̣
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹḅó ̣
n.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹyé
p
la
la
bp
la
bp
captain; leader
afore; in front; in future
come quickly
take front
go onward; go in front; go forward
very front; van; foremost part; forefront
war front
cape; headland; promontory; ness; tip
cape of the sea; headland; promontory
fingertip
next bend of river, marking off one ḅoú
‘stretch’ from the next
tip of toe
next bend of road, marking off one pirí
‘stretch’ from the next
top of head (point from which measure of
height is taken)
crawl (like snail); creep (like creeping plants);
be serpiginous (of skin diseases like yaws,
leprosy, etc., and like sores)
lap; lick up (liquid); drink by scooping up
with tongue
lick one’s lips or chops
flash (of lightning)
flash of lightning
flat and small (of nose and usually mouth)
flash (of lightning or gun); give out flame or
spark
flash
with a flash
flicker (of lightning, serpent’s tongue; or
flame of light disturbed by the wind); flash
and die away by turns
flicker; irregular flash
flickeringly
marry by big dowry
marriage by big dowry
A. affair; business; concern; matter; look-out;
B. case; legal action; palaver; cause; lawsuit;
calamity; danger; hardship; plight
palaversome
cause, effect, bring about, produce a case
state or express fully and clearly facts of a
case orally
acquittal; deliverance by verdict from a charge
decide; judge; settle a case
judge; arbiter
judgment; sentence
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ịnị ḅẹrẹ ‘that’s
your affairs’; ịnị
ḅẹrẹghá ‘that’s not
your business’
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹyé ̣
ḅẹrérẹ
̣
ḅẹrẹsigimọ
ḅérị
̣
n.
v.t.
conj.
v.i.
ḅẹrí ̣
ḅẹsụ
ḅẹsụ
ḅẹsụḅọ
v.t.
v.i.
a.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
v
.phr.
a.
adv.
v.t.
and
v.i.
tọrú ̣ ḅẹsụ
tọrú ̣ ḅẹsụmó ̣
ḅéụụ
̣
ḅéụụmọ
̣
1
ḅí
ḅịaḅurú
ḅíye
ḅió ḅi
ye ékị
̣ ḅíya
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅí2
ḅíya
v.t.
n.
nú ̣a ḅí
ḅí3
ḅigí
v.p.
v.i.
v.t.
ḅigí ḅa
ḅígiri
v.p.
v.i.
ḅígiri
ḅígirimọ
ḅígiriḅigiri
ḅígiriḅigirimọ
ḅilé
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
ḅilé
ḅilemó ̣
n.
v.t.
ḅilé
v.i.,
v.t.
n.
ḅilemó ̣
mindíḅileḅó ̣
ifoín ḅilé
arụ ḅilé
n.m.f
.
v.p.
v.p.
court of law
recline; (slang) repose
except; save; unless
open canoe with fire; dilate; expand; enlarge
(naturally)
same above
be lenient; be indisposed to severity
lenient; indisposed to severity
lenient person
act leniently
act leniently
fo
smooth; greasy
smoothly
ask; call for an answer to; supplicate; make a
request for; demand; require; question;
interrogate; investigate; enquire; inquire into;
examine; beg; ask alms; consult; take counsel
with; deliberate; debate; discuss
cooked or roasted food
request; thing asked for; supplication
take counsel with one’s mind; resolve
deliberate; hold debate; take counsel how a
thing might be done
greet; salute; hail; thank; congratulate
greetings; salutation; salute; thanks;
congratulations
give greetings; say thanks; salute
fall into a trap
strangle; kill by squeezing and breaking
neckbone
kill by strangling
struggle; strive hard to do something or get
free
spell of struggling
strugglingly
energetic
energetically
A. sink; disappear below surface of liquid;
capsize:
capsizing (of ship, canoe)
cause to sink; capsize; upset; overturn; dip;
immerse; plunge; submerge; inundate; flood;
overflow; deluge; cover; overlay; overspread
(with earth, a grave or ditch; with influence, a
serious happening)
B. dive; plunge into water:
dive; plunge into water; swim under water;
submersion (of submarine)
diver
dive for oysters
dive to find lost canoe
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(slang)
arụ ḅilé ‘a canoe
capsized’
mindí ḅile ‘dive
into water’
ḅilé
v.t.
ḅilé
n.
ḅíliḅíli
v.i.
ḅíliḅílimọ
ḅíloḅílo
ḅíloḅílo
ḅíloḅílomọ
ḅílolóo
ḅílolóo
adv.
v.t.
and
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
ḅílolóomọ
ḅílorúu
ḅílorúu
ḅílorúumọ
ḅió1
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
n.
ḅió1
a.
B, inside; interior; internal; inward:
ḅió1
n.
C. inside (in time or place):
ḅió seí
ḅiódụ
v.p.
n.
have bad intent
inside:
ḅiódụ oduguru
ḅióḅioghọ
ḅióḅiomọ
ḅiópolo
a.
adv.
adv.
n.
ḅiótọrụ
ḅiótọrụ
n.
n
ḅió ḍụḅá
sub.+
v.i.
a.
subj.
+v.i.
a.
‘inner room’
inwardly; not loud
inwardly; (of saying) silently
yard; piece of enclosed ground attached to
building; garden; piece of ground devoted to
growing fruit or vegetables
inland waterway
D. kernel of coconut; edible inside portion of
molluscs such as clams, limpets, mussels,
periwinkles, snails and oysters, and also of
crabs
said of coconut or shellfish with large kernel
or flesh inside
having large kernel or flesh inside
said of coconut or shellfish with large kernel
or flesh inside
having large kernel or flesh inside
ḅióḍụḅá
ḅió ebí
ḅióẹbí
C. (wrestling) dive under one’s opponent’s
guard
(wrestling) diving under one’s opponent’s
guard
ooze out steadily and rapidly (of semiliquid
substance like toothpaste)
oozily; in an oozing manner
gulp; swallow down hastily; greedily, or with
effort
gulp; act of gulping; large mouthful
gulpingly
be flat, shallow and long (of canoe)
flat and long (of nose); flat, shallow and long
(of canoe)
in a flat, long and shallow manner
sheepish
sheepishness
sheepishly
A. inside; inner side; inner part; interior; inner
surface
a
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ḅió is always
suffixed to nouns to
make them mean
‘inside’: ḅịḅị ḅio
‘inside of mouth’
furó ḅio ‘inside of
belly’ warí ḅio
̣
‘inside of house’
ḅió kigi ‘inside
(interior, internal)
wall’
wíki ḅio ghọ
‘inside of a week’
ịní ḅiodụ
‘my
̣
innermost part,
mind’; warí ḅiodụ
̣
ghó ̣ ‘in the inside of
a house’
ḅió ịrú ̣
ḅió-ịrú ̣
ḅió seí
ḅióseí
ḅió pólomọ
ḅió pólomọ
ḅio-áye
ḅió ḅará
ḅió ḅí
ḅió ḅélẹ
̣
ḅióḅẹlẹ
ḅióḅẹlẹ
(mịé)̣ ḅió ḅélẹmọ
̣
ḅióḅélẹmọ
̣
subj.
+v.i.
a.
sub.+
v.i.
a.
v.p.
n
n.pl.
v.p.
v.p.
subj.
+v.i.
a.
n.
v.p.
adv.
e
e
e
e
e
glad; happy; joyous; merry; pleasant; mirthful
gladness; happiness; joy; merriment
gladden; rejoice the heart; make glad
gladly; happily; joyfully; joyously; merrily;
mirthfully; gladsomely
joyless; mirthless
be nauseated
ḅió ḍọgí ̣
a.
subj.
+v.i.
v.p.
e
ḅióḍó ̣gị
ḅió ḍọgịmó ̣
ḅióḍọgịmọ
n.
v.t.
a.
e
e
e
ḅióḍọgịmọḅará
ḅió ḍọmó ̣
ḅióḍọmọ
ḅióḍọmọḅó ̣
adv.
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
adv.
a.
a.
v.p.
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
n.
n.pl.
e
e
consolation
comfort; console; soothe in grief
kind-hearted
love; hold dear
trust
trust
not courageous; cowardly
vexation; state of distress; annoyance; sorrow
grieve; feel sorrow at
sorrowful; angry; enraged; wrathful
anger; annoy; irritate; distress; vex
angrily; vexedly; vexingly
irritable; vexing
difficult; hard; troublesome; perplexing
worry; trouble; agitate; disturb; tease; harass;
be difficult; be disturbed
worry; care; difficulty; embarrassment
worry; care; difficulty; embarrassment
n.
bp
kidney
ḅióḅélẹfá
̣
ḅió ḍó ̣gị
ḅióḍọmọyé
ḅió ḍọụmọ
ḅió-ebí
ḅió ékị
̣ prí ̣
ḅió ékị
̣ tụá
ḅió-ékịtụá
̣
ḅiófaá
ḅiófụrú ̣
ḅió fụrú ̣
ḅiófụrú ̣
(mịé)̣ ḅió fụrụmó ̣
ḅiófụrú ̣mọ
ḅiófụrụmọ
ḅiógbo
ḅió gbo
ḅiógboyé
ḅiógbo-ayé,
ḅiógboyaí ̣
ḅió-ímbi
e
e
said of coconut or shellfish when kernel or
flesh is very small and shrivelled inside
having small shrivelled kernel or flesh
said of coconut or shellfish when kernel or
flesh is very small and shrivelled inside
having small shrivelled kernel or flesh
remove entrails of fish or game internally
without cutting open the belly; draw (fame or
fish
E. mind; heart; core
entrails
forget; lose remembrance of or about
take counsel with one’s mind
be glad; be pleased; rejoice; feel great joy
affect with nausea; cause to reject food with
loathing
nausea; loathing
nauseate; cause nausea
nauseating; nauseous; offensive to smell or
taste
nauseously
comfort; solace
comforter
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= ḅió ḍọmọ
ḅió-ímgbọ
̣
ḅiókoríya
(ẹkị) ḅió korómọ
ḅiókorómọyé
n.
a.
v.p.
n.
ḅió kuru
ḅiókoruḅó ̣
ḅiókoru-oweí
ḅiókoru-ará
ḅiókpọ
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.f.
a.
p
p
e
ḅiókpọ
n.
e
ḅió kpọmó ̣
ḅiókpọmọyé
ḅiókpó ̣mọ
ḅiókụró ̣
ḅió kụrọmó ̣
v.p.
n.
adv.
a.
v.p.
e
e
e
e
e
ḅióla
ḅiólamo
ḅiólaghá
ḅiónyáịn
ḅió nyaịnmó ̣
ḅió-oweí
ḅió-ọfịrí ̣
ḅióseí
ḅió seimó ̣
ḅióseimó ̣
ḅió só ̣ngọló ̣
ḅiósó ̣ngọló ̣
ḅió sọngọlọmó ̣
ḅiósó ̣ngọlọmọ
a.
adv.
a.
n.
v.p.
a.
a.
a.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
ḅiótugu
n.
bp
ḅiótugu-ọgịẹí ̣
ḅióweí
ḅióyeé
ḅélẹḅio
̣
ebiḅió
fụrụḅió
oweiḅió
ọfịrịḅió
seiḅió
seiḅió
ḅióḅio
ḅió2
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
bp
bp
bp
e
e
e
e
e
e
a
p
core; heart; heartwood
intimate; familiar
remember; recall to mind
remembrance; remembering; recollection;
memorial
serve
servant
male servant
female servant
audacious; bold; brave; courageous; daring;
fearless; hardy; impudent; insolently
disrespectful
audacity; boldness; bravery; courage;
impudence
embolden; make bold; encourage
encouragement
boldly; bravely; courageously
hard-hearted
harden or make hard heart; take heart; pick up
courage
sincere; ingenuous; frank
sincerely; ingenuously; frankly
insincere; disingenuous
heartbreak
discourage; dismay
irritable; quick to anger; irascible; wrathful
hot-tempered
bad or wicked-hearted
disgust; excite loathing
loathsome; repulsive; disgusting; disgustful
feel seasick; feel nausea
nausea; loathing
nauseate
nauseous; offensive to taste or smell;
nauseating
bosom; boob; tit; breast; chest; bust
(especially of women)
point of the breastbone or sternum
heart
liver
happy mood
good humour; good temper
anger; fury; rage
passion; strong emotion; outburst of anger
strong enthusiasm
ill-humour
F. apartment; compartment; room
roomy; full of rooms
growl; grunt; roar; rumble, etc. of animals,
sea, thunder, cannon, fire, storm, etc.:
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cf. indo3, kuḅu2
nama ḅió ‘growl of
animal’; abadí ḅio
̣
‘roar of ocean’; fịní ̣
ḅio ‘crackling of
fire’; ebirí ḅio
‘rumble of storm’
ḅió fie
ḅió fiemọ
v.p.
v.p.
utter loud deep sound
(of animals) send forth loud deep hoarse
sound
land (as opposed to sea or water):
ḅio
n.
ḅio koró
ḅio lá
ḅio lámọ
ḅiókoro
ḅíri1
ḅịrịaḅú ̣
ḅirimó ̣
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
ḅiriyaí ̣
ḅíri2
n.pl.
v.i.
mindí ḅirimó ̣
v.p.
ḅiri1
ḅiri-angá
ḅiri ḅolo
ḅiriḅoloyé
ḅiri ḅoló
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
ḅiriḅoló
ḅiri2
amaḅirí
n.
n.
n.
wash woman with hot water, etc., after
childbirth in a native maternity home
bole; stem; trunk; girth
side from armpit to hips
gird loins; belt up
belt
climb by gripping with knees and hands;
swarm up
swarming up
section; part cut off from something
section of town
ogbóḅirí
ḅiri
n.
n.
central section; middle
nearness in number, scale, degree, etc.; about:
ḅịá1
ḅịá1
v.i.
a.
ḅịá paga1
ḅịá2
v.p.
v.i.
shine; emit or reflect light; be bright; glow
bright; emitting or reflecting much light;
shining
shine forth
(of food) be ready; be done; be cooked or
roasted to the right degree:
ḅịá3
v.i.
disembark
reach land
bring to land
deep; going far down from top
dress up with cloth
half bottle
adorn; accoutre; attire; array; clothe; decorate;
dress; dandify; furnish with
dresses (in general)
bathe (ceremonially only):
dr
be or become ripe; ripen; be mellow; be
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= ḅió tụa
ḅiokiri (lit. "landground") ‘dry land’
ọsáịn ḅíiri, ó ̣saịn
ḅíri ‘bathe or
sprinkle with
medicine’
ḅiri is suffixed to
proper names to
show sections
within same village,
as Bàsánḅiri
(Bàssamḅiri),
Ogbolomaḅirí, the
two main sections
of N embe.
mési ḅirí ‘about
forty’; sọnọma
kụrá ḅirí ‘about
seven years’; mí ̣
ḅiri lányụ ‘will be
about this size or
position’
ḅiá ebi ‘be welldone’; ḅịá ḅọgọ ‘be
overdone’; ḅịágha
‘be underdone’
ḅịá3
ḅịá3
ḅịá paga2
ḅịá4
ḅịá4
a.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
a.
ḅịátịé ̣
a.
ḅịá5
ḅịamó1̣
ḅịamó2̣
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
ḅiamó3̣
ḅịamó4̣
ḅịá6 (mu)
ḅịaḅịá
ḅíḅaị
̣
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
n.
ḅoyoḅịḅaí ̣
ḅọgọtẹḅịḅaí ̣
ḅịḅị
ḅịḅị-anga
ḅịḅị-angayaí ̣
ḅịḅịḅélẹ
̣
ḅịḅịḅélẹ
̣
ḅịḅịḅẹlẹmó
ḅịḅịḅẹlẹmó ̣
ḅịḅị ḅẹlẹmó ̣
ḅịḅị ḅọgọmó ̣
ḅịḅịḅọgọmọḅó ̣
ḅịḅị fieghá
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.pl.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
n.
n.pl.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
ḅịḅịfieghámó ̣
ḅịḅị gbán
ḅịḅị ghọ sará
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅịḅị ghọ sín
ḅịḅị-irí
ḅịḅịkịrí ̣
ḅịḅịkpépu
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
ḅịḅị ḅọgó ̣ya
ḅịḅị-egé
ḅịḅị-egeyaí ̣
ḅịḅị ó ̣kị
ḅịḅị ékịya
̣
ḅịḅị ékị
̣ prí ̣
ḅịḅịfiédịgha
ḅịḅịfiédịghaḅó ̣
bloodshot (of eyes)
ripe; mellow; red and full; (of age) old
ripeness
show signs of ripeness
(of leaves) be or become dry
dry; without moisture:
co
bp
bp
bp
fr
fr
fr
bp
bp
(of wood and old man) dry but standing;
(slang) positively charged with bad medicine
or charms
(of wound or sore) heal
brighten; shine; polish
ripen; redden; cause to ripen; mellow; (of
eyes) cause to be bloodshot
make or cause to dry up
heal; cure
be hurried to or along
red; reddish
tomorrow; morrow; the next or following day;
the previous day
tomorrow; morrow; the next or following day
yesterday; the previous day
mouth; word; language
corners of mouth
whiskers; moustache
full of fine words; flowery
be flowery
pineapple
pineapple
pineapple
converse; chat with; confabulate
conversation; chat
interpret
interpreter
quarrel; fall out
chin; lower jaw
beard
challenge a statement
quarrel
utter curse against
dumb; unable to speak distinctly
dumb person; mute
be mute; be silent; be unable to speak; be
speechless
speechlessly
make silent; keep mouth shut
vomit; eject from stomach through mouth;
puke; spew
vomit; puke; spew
slip of the tongue
level measure
dumb; unable to speak; aphasic
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ḅiá ḅéke-imbí ‘dry
coconut’
Ananas comosus.
Ananas comosus.
Ananas comosus.
ḅịḅị kpepú
ḅịḅịkpépu
v.p.
n.
ḅịḅịkpó ̣
ḅịḅị kpọmó ̣
ḅịḅịkpọmọyé
a.
v.p.
n.
ḅịḅịkụló ̣
n.
ḅịḅịkụọḅịt`é ̣
ḅịḅị nụnú ̣
n.
v.p.
ḅịḅị-ógbo sú ̣ọ
ḅịḅị-okoló
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
ḅịḅịomí
ḅịḅị ọfịrịmó ̣
ḅịḅị-ọfịrịmọyé
ḅịḅị pagá
ḅịḅịpagará
ḅịḅịpẹịghá
ḅịḅịpẹlé ̣
ḅịḅị pịrí ̣
ḅịḅịpịrịyé
ḅịḅị sará ḍugo
ḅịḅị seí
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
subj.
+v.i.
ḅịḅịseí
n.
ḅịḅị seí yaị fié
ḅịḅị wagí
v.p.
v.p.
ḅịḅị wágị
subj.
+v.i.
n.
n.pl.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
ḅịḅịwágị
ḅịḅịyaí ̣
amaḅịḅí ̣
ḅékeḅịḅí ̣
ḅẹlẹmó ̣ḅịḅí ̣
ebíḅịḅífié
̣
indoḅịḅí ̣
kiríḅioḅịḅí ̣
seíḅịḅífié
̣
tọrụḅịḅí ̣
ḅịlá
ḅịláḅịḅịege
ḅịláḍigí
ḅịlágboún
ḅịlaí ̣
ḅílalí
̣ ị̣
bp
cause to be dumb
aphasia; loss of speech, as a result of cerebral
affection
haughty and insolent
refresh mouth with different kind of food
refreshment; dessert; different kind of food to
main dish
mouth:
ịnị ḅịḅịkụlọ gbáan
‘shut your mouth!’
napkin
make wry mouth; pout; protrude lips as sign
of displeasure
coalesce; come together and form one in talks
spokesman
bp
f
d
d
bp
m
v
i
fg
wry mouth made by a child prior to crying
act as appetizer
appetizer
(of cloth) show first signs of rent
lip
blackchin guitarfish
Rhinobatus
cemiculus cf.
ẹgbẹịnḅịḅịpẹịgha
level measure
cheer
tuberculosis; pulmonary consumption
speak smartly or quickly
to have thrush (disease of children marked by
fungus growth in mouth and throat); (of palm
fruits) rot at tips of fruits
thrush; disease of children marked by fungus
growth in mouth and throat
be fond of speaking ill words or curses
renovate wearing cloth by joining two former
edges together and tearing cloth in two at the
place where there is rent in centre
ebb (of tide); recede
ebb; recession
teeth
native language; dialect
English language
conversation; confabulation
speaking kindly; kind (especially of spirits)
teat; nipple
cant; peculiar language of sect or class; jargon
wicked (of spirit)
mouth of river or creek
African elephant
mainstay of a family
liana sp.
mason-wasp
woven screen for fishing; heck
gluey; plastic; ropey (of fufu when well
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Loxodonta africana
ḅịlá-tọgọ [?]
n.
ḅịló ̣
ḅílọló
̣ ̣ọ
ḅịrị
ḅịrị
ḅịrímọ
̣
ḅịté ̣
ḅịté-ákịsị
̣
ḅịté ̣ ḍorí
ḅịtéḍorí
̣
ḅịté ̣ gbein
ḅịtégbeín
̣
ḅịtégbeinyé
̣
ḅịtẹ-ikiḅá
n.
a.
n.
v.t.
and
v.i.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
ḅịtékwọtá
̣
ḅịtélọsí
̣
̣
ḅịté ̣ go
n.
n.
v.p.
ḅịtéwarí
̣
̣
n.
góḅịtẹ
n.m.
ḅo1
ḅo1
ḅo lá
ḅo la
v.i.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅo paga
ḅoyo
v.p.
a.
ḅoyọ
ḅo2
n.
suf.
ḅóḅoróo
ḅóḅoróomọ
ḅodu
a.
adv.
n.
ḅịrịḅó ̣
t
tr
tr
cl
cl
cl
cl
cl
beaten so that it is capable of being drawn out
in a long string without breaking)
sausage-tree
Kigelia africana
(Bignoniaceae)
bud; embryo; apex; top shoot of tree
long and narrow
prophecy; prediction; divination
foretell; predict; prophesy; divine
prophet; juggler; doctor
prophesy about
cloth; drapery; garment
handkerchief
spin; weave
spinning; weaving
sew; stitch
sewing
needle; sewing-machine
one fathom or two yards of cloth
(Probably old-time
cloths were only in
four-yard pieces,
hence ikiḅá,
meaning ‘half’ of
four yards.)
one and a half yards of cloth
one yard of cloth
join pieces of different cloths of form a useful
big piece
full piece of cloth, formerly perhaps only 4
yards, now 6,8 or 10 yards
cloth with variegated pieces and often colours,
joined by needlework
arrive; come
advent; coming; arrival
arrive; reach
ought, are fit, to have come:
i bo lá ‘you ought
to have come’
come to pass
next; coming nearest;
e.g. ḅoyo kụra
‘next year’
provenance, (place of) origin
suffix added at the end of a statement to
á fịyóḅo ‘I’m just
produce a persuasive, impressive or
eating (excuse
apologetic effect:
me)’; ó mangịyóḅo
‘he is running
well!’
motionless
motionlessly
self
a ḅodu ‘herself’;
aíṇ ḅodu ‘itself’;
ịní ḅodu
‘myself’;
̣
ịnị ḅodu ‘yourself’;
eín ḅodu
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‘themselves’; ó
ḅodu ‘himself’; ọ
ḅodu ‘yourselves’;
wa ḅodu ‘ourself,
ourselves’; a
ḅarana ḅodu ‘her
own self’ ó ḅarana
ḅodu ‘his own
self’; wa ḅarana
ḅodu ‘our own self,
selves’
ḅófa
ḅógoi
ḅógoimindi
conj.
n.
n.
wt
wt
ḅógoisa
ḅógolóo
ḅogoloḅogolo
ḅólia
n.
a.
a.
n.m.
f
ḅólo
ḅólomọ
ḅoló
a.
adv.
v.t.
ḅoló
ḅolómọ
ogbó ḅolómo
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.i.
v.p.
ḅolomó ̣
v.t.
ḅolóya
ḅolóya
(ye) ḅolomọyé
(ye) ḅoloyé
ḅoloḅolo
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
ḅólúu
a.
ḅolú1
ḅolú2
v.t.
v.t.
ḅorí
ḅoríkiri
ḅorí paga
ḅorí sụọ
ḅoróḅu
ḅoróḅu-afịaị
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
lest; for fear that
rainy season
annual flood water that occurs in rainy season;
spate
credit to pay at more favourable time
bold; big; large (of grain, writing, etc.)
same as above
dolphin; dolphin fish
family Delphinidae
[aquatic mammals,
not fish];
Coryphaena sp. [a
fish]
tight; close; near
tightly, closely
brace; clamp; clasp; embrace; fasten together;
grasp; hold closely; tighten
jam; become tightly wedged; be fixed; cohere;
stick together; agglutinate
adhere; cleave to; stick fast
assemble (as mechanic); combine; join
together; link; connect in friendship or
marriage; incorporate; unite; co-operate
paste; seal; stick up; affix; fix; attach; fasten;
impress
cuddle; embrace; hug; grapple
cuddle; embrace one another; hug; lie close
and snug; nestle together; grapple
ft
ft
ft
ft
seal (of wax, lead, etc.); paste; gum;
brace; clamp; cramp
(of eyes) large and rounded; saucer-eyed; (of
writing) bold
chubby; plump; round-faced; crude; lacking
finish
support
heap up soil around plant; heap up; measure
with the aid of the hands
fishing at a distant place
fishing port; fishery
go out on fishing at a distant place
dwell in a fishing port for fishing
eve; evening
supper
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Nyanaḅọḅei
boróbu-afịaị ‘the
Lord’s Supper’
ḅoróḅu-ebi
ḅórogíi
ḅorú
ḅoruḅoru
ḅoruḅorúmọ
ḅoú
n.
a.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
ḅoú-ịdẹgẹ
n.m.
f
evening glory; wealth at a later age
reclinate; bending downwards
bush cane-rope; rattan species
silent
silently
A. bush (in general in Njọ), but strictly
‘mangrove-bush’ (in N embe dialect).
However, the original Njọ sense is retained in
the following:
fish sp.; barbel
ḅou-ídẹgẹ
̣
n.m.
f
fish sp.; barbel
ḅoú-oḅori
n.m.
m
water chevrotain
ḅou-óbiri
ḅoúkọnye
ḅoúpulo
n.m.
n.
n.
m
bp
t
water chevrotain
penis
tree sp.
ḅoúsẹ
pẹlẹghaḅoú
seiḅoú
n.
n.
n.
d
la
tr
n.
la
ft
ft
ft
ft
ft
ft
acute rheumatism all over the body
virgin forest; jungle; thicket
burial bush (especially for deaths by abnormal
causes)
B. mile; stretch of a river-bank which ends at
a turn
cape; headland; promontory
C. fishing
fish; search for fish
fishing as occupation
go fishing
go out fishing
the last fish, etc., to emerge from iguru when
catch is emptied our
drink (water, wine, etc.); smoke (tobacco and
products); absorb; suck in (liquid)
drinkables; things to drink
fresh; drinkable
things to drink; drinkables
fresh water
drunkenness
be drunk
drinking-water
in:
wine-palm
v
la
ḅoú
ḅoúḅẹlẹu
ḅoú
ḅoú kọn
ḅoúkọn
ḅoú mu
ḅoú paga
ḅoúgugu
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
ḅou1
v.t.
ḅou-aye
ḅouḅou
ḅouḅou-aye
ḅouḅoumindi
ḅoukó ̣rị
ḅou kó ̣rị
ḅoumindi
ḅou2
ala ḅou
n.pl.
a.
n.pl.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
ḅọ
n.
person; anyone: e.g.
-ḅọ
suf.
suffix used to form a personal noun signifying
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t
Barbus sp. lit.
‘bush-mullet’. cf.
ịdẹgé ̣
Barbus sp. lit.
‘bush-mullet’. cf.
ịdẹgé ̣
Hyemoschus
aquaticus Also
recorded as ḅouóbiri, ḅou-óḅori
lit. ‘bush-goat’.
Harungana
madagascarensis
(id. by N yananyo)
literally "bad bush"
(= igurutugu)
Raffia vinifera; cf.
ḅoukọrọ
aní ḅó
̣ ̣ tú ̣ḅọ? who
is that person?
telimó ̣ ‘teach’;
an individual person or practitioner. It is
always suffixed to the root of a verb, and like
the English -er means ‘one who has to do
with’. Derivatives with the suffix have been
largely omitted: e.g.
ḅó ̣ḅọró ̣ọ
ḅó ̣ḅọrọḅọḅọrọ
ḅó ̣ḅọró ̣ọmọ
ḅó ̣ḅú ̣ụ
ḅó ̣gọ
a.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
humpy; humped; hunchy
humpy; hunchy
with a hump
untouched (of food)
(of joint) dislocate; come out of joint
ḅó ̣gọyọ
yọ ḅó ̣gọ
ḅọgọ
n.
v.p.
v.i.
ḅọgó ̣ya1
yọ ḅọgó ̣
ḅọgọ
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
dislocation
get dislocation
A. move onward; pass; proceed; pass down,
over, on; go uncensured; get through; effect a
passage; pass an examination
pass each other
depart to; go (somewhere)
B. be beyond in time or place: e.g.
ḅọgọtẹ
a.
gone by in time, just gone by; last: e.g.
ḅụọḅọgọtẹ
kụraḅọgọtẹ
ḅọgó ̣ya2
ḅọgọ
ḅọgọmó1̣
a.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
ḅọgọmó2̣
ḅọgọmó3̣
ḅọgọ
v.t.
n.
v.t.
ḅará ḅọgọ
ḅọgọ
adv.p
.
v.i.
ḅọgọ
oruḅọgọ
ḅọgọ
n.
n.
v.t.
old; ancient
aged; last year’s (of root crop)
be different from; not be corresponding to
C. escape; get free; be free; go unpunished
cause to get free or escape; allow to escape;
make free; set at liberty; liberate; spare;
forgive; pardon; give amnesty to; assoil;
acquit; absolve; release; abstain from killing;
not kill
kill
forgiveness; pardon; amnesty; absolution
D. surpass; excel; out-do; leave behind; be too
great for
too much, immoderately; extravagantly;
beyond measure
E. stop; come to an end; cease from doing;
discontinue:
stop; end;
ending of a possessed state
F. round off; bring to complete or wellordered state:
ḅọgọ
n.
ḅọgọọ
ḅọkọ
conj.
n.m.
f
(net weaving) complete round; (dancing) a
pass round:
as if
cutlassfish, largehead hairtail; ribbonfish
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telimó ̣ḅọ ‘teacher’;
fịrí mọndị
‘work’;
̣
fịrímọndịḅọ
̣
‘worker’ (N ote.
The plural of -ḅọ ongu.)
cf. ḅará ḅó ̣gọ; ḅụọ
ḅó ̣gọ, etc.
Ọ mangị warímị
̣
ḅọgọ ‘he ran past
the house’; ó timí
tra kịló ̣kị ḅọgọ ‘he
stayed till past 3
o’clock’
ḅọgọtẹ kụra ‘last
year’; ḅọgọtẹ
ọgọnọwei ‘last
month’
(idiom)
osuó ḅọgọ ‘rain
stopped’
ịgba ḅọgọ ‘make a
pass round (in
dancing)
ịgbaḅọgọ ‘a pass
round (in dancing)’
Trichiurus lepturus;
family
Trachipteridae
ḅó ̣lị
ḅọlí ̣
v.i.
v.t.
ḅọló ̣
ḅó ̣lọ
ḅọlọí ̣
ḅọlọlọ
ḅọlú ̣
ḅọlú ̣mọ
ḅó ̣lụụ
ḅọrọ
n.
n.m.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
ḅó ̣rọgíị̣
ḅó ̣rọgíị̣
ḅọrọpú ̣ụ
ḅọsụ
ḅọsụ
ḅọsú ̣mọ
ḅọsụmó ̣
ḅoúpulo
a.
v.i.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
ḅọú1̣
ḅọú2̣
v.t.
v.i.
ḅọú2̣
a.
ḅọú ̣ḅio
ḅọú ̣gha
n.
v.i.
ḅọú ̣gha
ḅọú ̣gha
ḅọụmó ̣
n.
a.
v.t.
ḅọụmó ̣
n.
ḅó ̣ụḅó ̣ụ
a.
ḅu
v.i.
ḅu
ḅịá ḅu
ḅịáḅu
wọrị ḅumó ̣
ḅúḅere
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.
ḅúḅere
ḅúḅereḅúḅere
n.
a.
t
r
ft
t
h
assume curved position
straighten a curved materials; open canoe with
fire
tree sp.
gecko
borrow; lend
sleep
complete
completely
fat; plump; full and fleshy
dammed stretch of flat larger in size than
‘nembe’
inclined; almost falling
incline; lean; bend forward
over-soft; overripe; rotting
peevish; born weak; frail
weaken
weakly; weakishly
weaken
tree sp., ‘bush oil’
ignite; set fire to; light up
assent; agree to; consent; agree; acquiesce; be
willing; admit
agreeable; favourable; propitious; welldisposed
agreeable mind
dissent; disagree; refuse to assent. N ote:
Following a verb it means ‘refuse to’:
dissent; refusal
dissentient; disagreeable
allow; approve of; approbate; sanction;
permit; authorize; license
approval; assent; allowance; permission;
licence
slightly smoked (of fish); (figuratively)
wealthy
decay; decline; rot; lose quality; deteriorate
(wood, etc.)
decay; rot
be over-ripe
over-ripe
leave to rot or be over-ripe
A. mould; furry growth of fungi on things that
lie for some time in moist warm air
B. mushroom; fungus
mouldy; overgrown with mould
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= waríḅọlọ
̣
or ḅọrọpú ̣ḅọrọpụ
Pycnanthus
angolensis (Welw.)
Warb.
(Myristicaceae);
Harungana
madagascarensis
(Guttiferae)
ó mịé ̣ ḅọụgha ‘he
refused to do it’
ḅuḅeré1
v.i.
ḅuḅerémọ
ḅuḅeré2
ḅuḅeré2
ḅuḅeré ḅara
ḅuḅugú
ḅuḅugú
ḅuḅugumó ̣
adv.
n.
v.t.
adv.p
.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
ḅúḅurúu
ḅúḅurúumọ
ḅúḅuruḅuḅuru
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
ḅúḅuruḅuḅurumọ
ḅúgumína
n.
adv.
n.m.
ḅugụmína
ḅukuḅuku
ḅulée
ḅuléemọ1
ḅuléemọ2
ḅuleḅule
n.m.
a.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
ḅúlelee
ḅúlelee
ḅúlelee
ḅúluḅúlu1
ḅúluḅúlumọ1
ḅúluḅúlumọ2
ḅúluḅúlu2
ḅúluḅúlumọ3
ḅuroḅuro
ḅurú
a.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
ḅurú
ḅurú fị
(ḅurúfịweí)
ḅurú fụmụ
v.p.
n.m.
v.p.
ḅuru-óbi
ḅurú-ọlalị
ịkagịḅuru
n.
n.
n.
d
tr
tp
ọgó ̣nọḅuru
ḅuru-éperi
ḅuruma
ḅurumizi
ḅurumọ
ḅutú
ḅutú
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
v.i.
t
f
f
f
f
grope; feel about as in dark; search blindly;
find by feeling
gropingly
caress; fondling touch
caress; fondle; touch lightly
caressingly
swelter; be moist or languid with heat
sweltering condition
cause to swelter;
f
f
cr
tp
foolish; dull; stupid
foolishly
grope; feel about as in dark (for or after)
dull; slow of understanding; sluggish; slowmoving
dullness
dully
fish sp. toadfish
fish sp. toadfish
aged; very old
buoyant; apt to float
buoyantly
buoy up; come to surface of water
bulgy (of eyes)
bulgy (of eyes)
bulge; swell outwards faultily or prominently
bulginess
dirty; foul; sordid; soiled
dirtily
make dirty
exude; leak; ooze out; flow out sluggishly
oozily; with sluggish flow
very early morning
A. yam; edible tuber of various kinds of
climbing plants
B. the terminal bud of palms; cabbage
teethe; grow or cut milk-teeth (of a child)
knife
said of a snail when it seals up its mouth with
callus while hibernating
dropsy; oedema
yam-festival
tuber of wild climbing plants; the plants
themselves
breadfruit (both tree and fruit)
fish sp.; moonfish
fish sp.; cuttlefish
squid
fish sp.; cuttlefish
satiated
surfeit; satiate with
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hence gbán
ḅuḅugumó ̣
(also
ḅuḅúruḅuḅúru)
family
Batrachoididae
(cf. ḅụléẹ)
̣
(cf. ḅụlẹḅụlẹ,
ḅúlelee)
(cf. ḅulebule)
(cf. ḅú`lụḅú ̣lụ)
Dioscorea sp.
(Dioscoreaceae)
= ḅurúpuweí
Citharinus sp.
order Sepiidae
order Teuthidae
order Sepiidae
ḅutumọ
v.t.
ḅutuḅutu
ḅutuḅutu
ḅutuḅutu
ḅutuḅutúmọ1
ḅutuḅutúmọ2
ḅụ1
a.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
ḅụtụawei
ḅụ1
n.m.
ḅụ kụrọmọ
ḅụ na fíạ
ḅụnáfịa
v.p.
v.p.
n.
ḅụnafíamọ
̣
ḅará ḅụ tarị
ḅarábụtarị
ḅụ1
adv.
v.p.
n.
cloy; glut; satiate; sate; weary with overabundance (as richness, sweetness, excess of
food, etc.)
dirty; soiled; foul
dirtiness
become dirty
dirtily; in a dirty way
make dirty
A. body;
ornament for the body; garment
B. self (used for emphasis):
strengthen oneself; endure; try
content; be satisfied with something
content; contentment; contentedness;
satisfaction
contentedly
be selfish
selfishness
C. same; self-same; very: e.g.
ḅụ1
D. only; sole; alone, solitary, standing by
oneself (in opinion, etc.): e.g.
ḅụ1
E. alone; only; solely; merely; exclusively;
e.g.
ḅụ2
ḅụḅẹlẹ
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
ḅụḅẹlẹ
kụmọḅụḅẹlẹ
kụmọḅụḅẹlẹgha
ḅụḅẹlẹgha
ḅụḅẹlẹmó ̣
n.
a.
a.
v.t.
&
v.i.
adv.
mịé ̣ ḅụḅẹlẹmó ̣
v.t.
ply; strand; turn of rope:
delight; please highly; give pleasure to; take
pleasure in; like; admire; be found of; prove
attractive; appeal to; glamour; bewitch;
charm; enchant; relish; prefer
pleasure; delight
pleasant; attractive
unpleasant; unattractive; detestable; odious
dislike; loathe; detest; not like
attractively; pleasantly; delightfully;
admirably; etc.
make pleasant; etc.
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cf. gbọrị ḅụ ‘one
body’
ịní ḅụ
̣ ‘(I) myself’;
ịnị ḅụ ‘(you)
yourself’, (thou)
thyself’; ó ḅụ, orí
ḅụ ‘(he) himself’
ara ḅụ ‘(she)
herself’ aíṇ ḅụ ‘(it)
itself’ wa ḅụ ‘(we)
ourselves’ ọ ḅụ
‘(you) yourselves’
eín ḅụ ‘(they)
themselves’
gbọrị kụmó ̣ḅei ḅụ
‘the very same
man’
orí ḅụ furuwọrió
‘he alone would
steal’
á aíṇ na ḅụ ghá,
ntẹ aíṇ érị
̣ ka érị
̣ ‘I
not only (merely)
heard it, but saw it
too’
traḅụ ‘three-ply’
ḅụḅú ̣rụḅụḅú ̣rụ
ḅụḅú ̣rụḅụḅú ̣rụ
ḅụḅú ̣rụḅụḅú ̣rụmọ
ḅụgịrịrị
ḅụgịrịrị
ḅụgịrịrífa
̣
ḅụgịrịrífa
̣
ḅụgịrịrịmọ
mịé ̣ ḅụgịrịrịmó ̣
ḅụgọ
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
n
ḅụgọḅa
ḅụgọḍigiḅọ
ḅụgọló ̣
ḅụgọlọmó ̣
ḅụgọló ̣nimi
ḅú ̣kụḅú ̣kụ
ḅú ̣kụḅú ̣kụ
ḅú ̣kụḅú ̣kụmọ
ḅụla
ḅú ̣laḅú ̣la
ḅụlafụrú ̣ụ
ḅụlọ
e
ḅụlọ
ḅú ̣lọḅú ̣lọ
ḅụléẹ̣
ḅụléẹmọ
̣
ḅụlẹḅụlẹ
ḅụlẹḅụlẹ
ḅụlụḅụlú ̣
ḅụlụḅụlú ̣mọ
ḅụlụḅụlụ
ḅụlụḅụlụmọ
ḅú ̣lụḅú ̣lụ
ḅú ̣lụḅú ̣lụmọ
ḅụmọ
ḅụmọ
ḅụmọ
ḅụmọye
ḅụọ1
n.
n.m.f
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
a.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
ḅụọ-ala
ḅụọdụ
ḅụọ da`
ḅụọḍa
ḅụọḍụ
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
n.
bp
ḅụọ-ẹbẹrẹḅaḅio
ḅụọ-ẹgbẹgị
ḅụọfuro
n.
n.
n.
bp
bp
bp
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
bp
not smart
be slow or not quick
not smartly
shame; be ashamed
shame; disgrace; ignominy
shameless
shamelessness
shameful;
shamefully
shamefulness;
shame; disgrace
door; entrance; gate; mouth of (river, creek,
etc.); means
doorpost; jamb
doorkeeper; gatekeeper; janitor; porter
embark; board a boat
put on or in (a boat)
aboard; on ship
frivolous; trifling
fiddle; be frivolous
frivolously
pass watery evacuations
lie strewn all over the ground
silly
daub; bedaub; smear; soil; paint; plaster; blur;
sully
daub; smear; splodge; splotch; painting
dauby; splotchy
of sound made by emerging gently from water
emerging from water in a gentle manner
bulgy (of eyes)
become bulgy
watchful
watchfully
unmixed
unmixedly
leak; ooze out; exude; bubble out
oozily; with sluggish flow
difficult; hard to do
be difficult or hard
difficulty
difficulty
foot; leg; hind-leg; foot-print; footstep; tread;
prop-roots; abutment
instep
towards the foot end
rehearse
rehearsal
the last thwart next to the stern; also the space
between the thwart and the stern
between toes
ankle
calf of leg
54
(cf. ḅulée)
(cf. ḅuleḅule)
(cf. ḅúluḅúlu 2.)
ḅụọnyaịnmọ
ḅụọ-ọbụ
ḅụọsụngbalị
ḅụọtịḅị
ḅụọtịḅị-ẹfẹrẹ
ḅụọtịẹmọye
ḅụọtongu
ḅụọtugu
ḅụọḅakalamọ
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
excl.
p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
ḅụọ2
ḅụọḅọgọ
ḅú ̣ra
n.
a.
v.i.
ḅú ̣ramọ
ḅụra1
ḅụra1
ḅụra2
ḅú ̣raḅú ̣ra
ḅú ̣raḅú ̣ramọ
ḅú ̣rẹẹ
ḅú ̣rẹẹmọ
ḅụrọ
ḅụrọfọụn
ḅụrọkiri
ḅụrọtongu
ḅụrọtugu
ḅụrú ̣
ḅụrú ̣
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
ḅụrú ̣
ḅụrụmó ̣
n.
v.t.
ḅụọbiri
ḅụọḅó ̣gọ
ḅụọgọ
ḅụọgọ munú
ḅụọgbanaye
ḅụọ ghọ koro
ḅụọ iri
ḅụọ-iri
ḅụọ-ịkalị
ḅụọ-ịkpụkụ
ḅụọ-ịkụtị
ḅụọ-ịmgbụ
ḅụọkọngọ
ḅụọkuḅu
ḅụọkuḅu
ḅụọkụọye
ḅụọ na kirí na
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
f
f
calf of leg (general)
dislocation of foot
foot end of a bed
have sexual intercourse
footstool
meet with failure
miss a step
missing of a step
ankle bone
knee
bend inside the knee
shank; shin
ankle
sole of foot
pertaining to the sole
door-mat
Be careful!
inner part of the knee
back or upper surface of foot
toes
knee
knee cap
foot-hold; footing; footstool
heel
leg
mullet sp.
(idiomatic)
family Mugilidae.
cf. abaraká,
akú ̣rọ, gbulu,
ịdẹgé,̣ mó ̣ngịnị,
ó ̣zọló ̣lị2,
generation; epoch; era; time; historical period
old; ancient
drift to a corner; become crooked; bend to one
side
adrift
slap; strike with palm of hand; smack; spank
slap; spank; stroke with palm
semutundu (a kind of catfish)
Bagrus dogmac
stagger; totter
staggeringly; etc.
calm; tranquil; quiet; windless
calmly; quietly; etc.
fireplace
ash
hearth; floor of fire-place
back of fireplace
front of fireplace
corrupt; rotten; depraved; putrid; decomposed
decay; mortify; putrefy; rot; be affected by
gangrene; necrotize; fester; suppurate; become
morally corrupt
decay; putridity; putridness
cause to mortify or putrefy; corrupt; infect
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ḅụrú ̣nyụ
ḅụrú ̣gha
ḅụrú ̣gha
ḅụtụawei
a.
a.
n.
n.m.
dr
corruptible; perishable
incorruptible; eternal
incorruption
clothes; costumes; dress; frock; garment
D, d
dá1
da n’ẹkí ̣
dá sụọmó ̣
dá tụa
dá1
v.t.
v.p.
v.t.
v.t.
dá2
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.t.
&
v.i.
dá sigimọ
dá sụọmọ
da1
da2
A. admit; accept
accept; receive
admit; allow entrance (applied to people)
admit; allow entrance; (applied to things)
B. earn; obtain as reward of labour; receive;
accept; take:
bolster up; support; prop; push:
‘push off’
‘push in’
drench; wet all over; beat; inflict blows on (of
sun, rain, wind);
face; stand facing or fronting; turn (cards,
etc.) face upwards or downwards
da3
v.t.
&
v.i.
reign; rule; hold sway,
dáá
dáda
dadá
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
adv.
dadamó ̣
dagá
dagá
dagamó ̣
daga
dagamó ̣
damó ̣ya
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
dry; make or become dry by evaporation; cure
or preserve (something) with smoke or sun,
etc.
child’s name for father
in opposite direction, place, or position;
opposite to or with; facing front to front, back
to back, or side to side, etc.
push; force way through
itch
itch; itching
irritate; make itch
be very hot with rage
annoy; irritate
abreast; opposite
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igbogí da ‘receive
money’
cf. osuó da; ẹfẹrụ
da; etc.
cf. wagí ọgó
̣
̣nọ da
‘turn or face
upwards’ wagí kirí
̣
da ‘turn or face
downwards’; look
or turn on to a
certain direction; be
opposite to; point to
a place, etc.
cf. ama da be the
head of (house,
family, etc.) cf.
warí da
̣ be at the
head of (company,
etc.) cf. tịḅị da lead
cf. ḅẹlẹụ da
etélimị damó ̣ya
angáma ḍigi ‘look
at the opposite sides
of the road’ warímị
̣
damó ̣yamị ghọ
pọgó ̣ fie lit. "in the
opposite of the
house voice talked",
i.e. ‘there was a
voice opposite the
house’
dá n’ẹkị
v.p.
dánẹkị
dangaị
dángaịmọ
dángenée
dángenéemọ
dáya
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
dé1
v.t.
dé sin
pirí de
v.p.
v.p.
désin
dé2
dé2
dé2
démọ1
démọ2
de
desa
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
dégerée
deí
déin
déin
a.
n.m.
a.
v i.
déin
déinmọ
deinmó ̣
demésedemése
demésedemése
demésedemésemọ
demó ̣
denenée
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
denenée
n.
denenéemọ
déngenée
dé ̣
déḅịtẹ
̣
déye
̣
dẹdé ̣
déẹ̣
adv.
a.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
b
k
admit; accept; receive as adequate;
acknowledge; own (person) to be something
acceptance; reception
high
aloft; high up; far up
high; of great height
aloft; high up; far up
confront; meet face to face; face in hostility or
in defiance; oppose to; refuse obedience to;
contradict; be contrary to
banish; condemn to exile; expel; drive away;
dismiss
drive away; expel:
chase; pursue animal in parkland with dogs
and guns
pursuit (in an unenclosed parkland)
boast
proud; boastful
boast
boastfully
cause to boast; make to be proud of
debt in which debtor evades payment with
many excuses
round; roundish
husband
calm; composed; cool; staid; tranquil; quiet;
become calm; cool (of weather, air, sea, mind,
body)
calm; stillness; serenity
calmly; composedly; staidly; coolly
make calm; pacify (self)
mad; wild; superstitiously timid; weird; eerie
mad, become mad
madly; wildly
drive; expel; eject; oust
start from sleep, shock); make sudden
movement from surprise, sleep, etc.)
start; sudden movement of surprise, or from
sleep
startlingly
same as dángenée
lay or spread table or bed; diaper; pad
diaper; layette; napkin for small children
pad; stuffing
pad; stuff
be dim
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(= déngenée)
-
déẹ̣
défịwei
̣
dégẹ
̣
dégẹ
̣
n.
n.m.
v.i.
dimness
table
A. be beaten or crushed by some weight
B. (of chewing; grinding, pounding) be ready;
be crushed into a pulp:
dẹgẹ1
v.t.
dẹgẹ2
adv.
beat, flog, slosh, thrash, severely; crush,
compress, with violence so as to break or
bruise
fairly e.g.
dẹgẹ3
adv.
often; frequently; many times; e.g.
dẹgẹdẹgẹ
adv.
dégẹré
ẹ̣
̣
dékị
̣
dékịdé
kị
̣
̣
dérị
̣
dẹrí ̣
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
dévụl,
dévụlụ
̣
̣
dí1
dí1
n.m.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
often; frequently; (in a negative context) not
often; rarely; seldom
short; shortish; flattish
deck; layer
in layers
be sold
sell; bargain away; make over; dispose of;
betray
the Devil
bear; give birth to; produce; beget; deliver;
extrude; generate; be born
di-ákpa
di-éne
dimó ̣
wọrị dimó ̣
díyọ
dí2
dímọ
n.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
bié
dié-esí
diékaramọ
dígaláa
dígbáa
dígbaa
dígbaamọ
dígbái
num.
num.
a.
a.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
dígbái
dígbáimọ
dígbolóo
v.i.
adv.
a.
birth; bringing forth of, offspring; extrusion,
descent; parentage; origin
womb
birthday (anniversary)
assist at birth (as midwife)
keep (animals) to produce young
birthplace
sag; have downward bulge or curve in middle
sag; cause to sag or curve; relax; mitigate;
abate
fifteen
three hundred
fifteenth
round; spherical; circular
plump; plunge
stagnant; motionless
stagnantly
plump; abrupt plunge (more violent than
dígbáa)
plump or plunge with abrupt descent
with sudden or heavy plump or plunge
blubber-lipped; with thick protruding lips
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togurú dẹgẹ ‘be
chewed up’ gbé ̣
dẹgẹ ‘be ground
up’ temí dẹgẹ ‘be
pounded up’
dẹgẹ ebínimí ‘it is
fairly good’
ó dẹgẹ ḅoyo yé ‘he
frequently comes’
(b) (in a negative
context) seldom;
rarely; not often ó
dẹgẹ bogha ‘he
seldom comes’
< English
(cf. dígbái)
díli1
v.i.
n. &
excl.
n.
reel for thread
díli2
n.
scantling; beam
dindín
dísi
a.
n.
disí1
disí1
disíyaị
v.t.
n.
n.pl.
disíyọ
disiwarí ̣
disí2
dísi-ile
dịgbínịdịgbí
nị
̣
̣
dịgbínịdịgbí
nị
̣
̣
dígbó
̣ ̣ọ
dígbó
̣ ̣ọmọ
dígịdí
̣ gị̣
dígịdí
̣ gịmọ
̣
dịgịmó ̣
díịn
̣
díịn
̣
dịn
dịnweí
dịn-yé
dịn-yó ̣
dobo
dóko
dóko
dókodóko
dókodóko
dókodóko
dókodókomọ
dóo
dóomọ
doú
doú
doú
doúmọ1
doúmọ2
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
dó ̣bíọọ
̣
dọgí1̣
dọgí1̣
dọgí2̣
dọgí2̣
dọgịmó1̣
dọgịmó2
a.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
dígbolóo
dílẹẹ
swell out
informal apology for an offence; regret; sorry!
hi
t
red
dish; oval or oblong, shallow, flat-bottomed
earthenware, glass or metal plate
void excrement; pass excreta; defecate; shit
act of voiding excrement; defecation
excrement; faeces; stool; manure; dung;
ordure; shit
latrine; lavatory; toilet; water-closet
latrine; lavatory; toilet; water-closet
be tainted with mildew
tree resembling ilé
toddle; walk with short tottering steps
toddling
stagnant; motionless
stagnantly
incessant; unceasing; continual (of cry)
incessantly
puddle; knead; crush to pulp
make a din or shrill cry in flight
din or shrill cry in flight
another; extra
an additional one
same as preceding
fraction; scrap
leap-frog
haste; hurry
haste; hurry
haste; hurry;
hurried; speedy; hasty
haste; hurry
hastily; hastily; hurriedly
dusty; misty
dustily; mistily
make haste; hurry up; be quick; be apt
hasty; quick; prompt; rapid; swift; fleet
haste; hurry
quickly; swiftly; rapidly; hastily; promptly
hasten; hurry away; cause to make haste;
hurry up
too high as a convenient seat
lose in game of cards; fail to score
loss
burn; deflagrate
deflagration
cause to lose
burn; cause to burn; char; deflagrate; scorch;
toast
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cf. díli ikpo ‘reel of
thread’
cf. díli kuru
‘scantling plant’
<English dish
(cf. doú)
(cf. dóko)
dọgú ̣
igoní dọgụ
dó ̣la
v.t.
v.i.
n.
paddle; propel canoe:
die
florin piece
dó ̣ngọị
dó ̣nị
dó ̣nịpalị
dọtí ̣
dọtí ̣
dọtí ̣
dọtímọ
̣
dọtịmó ̣
dọsú ̣mọ
dú1
dumó ̣
dumó ̣ dúdu1
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
dúdu1
dúmumọ
dúdu2
dudú
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
dudumó ̣
duení1
dueníḅịtẹ
duení2
dueníya
dúgbáa
dúgbáamọ
dúgbáamọ
dúgdúgbadúgba
dúgdúgbadúgba
dúgbadúgbamọ
dúgbanáa
dúu1
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
duumó ̣
dúu2
dúu tụa
dúu
duuduu
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
dụ1
v.t.
dụ2
dụ2
dụ
v.t.
n.
n.
pounce or swoop down upon
pouncing; sudden swoop
part; place; side:
dụá
dụaḅú ̣
dụáí ̣
dú ̣gbáa
a.
n.
n.
n.
other; some
some others
others; some
light plump or plunge
bo
dr
dr
fg
paddle; propeller; spade (in cards)
flowing garment for men
men garment reaching to the knees
dirt; unclean matter that soils
dirty; soiled; nasty; foul
be dirty; be nasty
dirtily; nastily
make dirty or nasty
pour upon
scoop out; off-load; unload
pack into; offload into; unload into
rave; talk wildly or furiously (as in anger or in
a quarrel
raving, boisterous talk;
boisterously; noisily
be loosened of its fruits (of bunch of palm)
shake (bag, etc.) upside down; shake any
loose material off
shake into container
join a loin cloth to be bigger in size:
joined loin cloth
catch
meet or grapple with
plump; abrupt plunge
plump; plunge with abrupt descent
with sudden or heavy plunge or fall
splatter; make continuous splashing sound
splatter; continuous splashing sound
with a splatter
plump and fat
drift and get aground; be stranded; be in
difficulties; be unable to get along, especially
want of funds or other resources
cause to be stranded; strand
riddle; conundrum; enigma
propound riddle; ask riddle
carbolic acid
be hot (of body of person) due to fever,
basking in sun or warming at fire
fish with a kind of woven basket called ọrụḅa
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archaic. <English
dollar
<English dirty)
cf. ḅịté ̣ dueni
cf. dígbáa, dú ̣gbáa
cf. dú`gbadú ̣gba
e.g. á ọrụḅa dụyó
‘I am fishing with
ọrụḅa’
e.g. wa dụ ‘our
side’
(cf. dúgbáa)
dú ̣gbáa
dú ̣gbáamọ
dụgbadụgba
dụgbadụgba
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
dụgbadụgbamọ
dụmó ̣
dụmó ̣dụmọ
dú ̣ọ
dụró ̣sị
adv.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
n.
dú ̣tịḅịdú ̣tịḅị
dú ̣ụ
n.m.
v.i.
dú ̣ụ
n.
plunge lightly
with light plunge
make continuous light splashing sound
light splatter; continuous light splashing
sound
with a light splatter
another person
fg
dr
s
one another
stick for fixing fish trap under water
drawers; knickers; shorts; underwear; pant
amphisbaenid snake;
droop; hang down, face downwards, as in
grief or weariness
drooping position
(cf. dúgbadúgba)
(perhaps contracted
from dịn kụmọ)
reciprocal
<English. cf.
tugusụọmó ̣
= mádụtịḅị (obi)
D ,ḍ
ḍa1
v.t.
ḍa1
ḍa2
n.
v.t.
kụmọ ḍa ye mịẹ
ḍa3
n.p.
v.t.
&
v.i.
ḍa3
ḅụọ ḍa
v.p.
ḅụọḍa
n.
ḍa4
v.i.
ḍaḍigi
ḍaḍigíḅara
ḍaḍigíye
v.t.
adv.
n.
ḍaḅa
indíḍaḅa
̣
ḍaḅo
ḍákaịn
ḍákaịnmọ
ḍákịríị̣
ḍákịríịmọ
̣
ḍarágị
ḍarágị
ḍarágịmọ
ḍarị1
ḍarị1
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
taste; learn flavour of (food, liquid, etc.) by
taking it into the mouth:
act of tasting
ape; imitate; emulate; mimic; copy (someone
to do a thing):
mimicry: mimicking
A. attempt; try; adventure; incur risk
ft
B. sound; test the depth of (sea or channel) or
for any object lying on the botton of the sea
rehearse; recite; practise for later public
performance
rehearsal; preparatory performance of play,
dance or any entertainment
fish with rod and line; angle;
tempt; try the resolution of; test
temptingly
temptation:
ft
fo
bog; marsh; lake; mere:
fishpond: piscina
kola; kolanut
raised or elevated (of buttocks)
with raised or elevated buttocks
short (especially of tail of rabbit, etc.)
shortly
roar; utter loud hoarse sound
roar; loud hoarse sound
with a roar
A. bark; bay; snarl (as dogs, etc.)
bark; bay; snarl (as dogs, etc.)
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e.g. fụlọ ḍa ‘taste
soup’
cf. ye ḍa ‘single for
something’ indí ḍa
‘angle for fish’
(pl.) ḍaḍigiáye;
ḍaḍigíyai
ḍarị1
ḍarị1
ḍarịmó ̣
ḍarímọ
̣
ḍarị2
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
ḍarị2
ḍarímọ
̣
n.
v.i.
ḍarímọyọ
̣
ḍaú ̣
ḍaụ-áma
ḍaụ-ánga
ḍaụ-ánga
ḍaú ̣ḅọ
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
n.m.
ḍaụ-óngu
ḍaụ-érịgha
̣
ḍaú ̣fa
ḍaụ-ówei
ḍáwọị
pl.
a.
a.
n.m.
v.t.
ḍawọímọ
̣ 1
ḍáwọịye
v.t.
n.
yeḍáwọị
n.
fịríḍáwọịḅọ
̣
ḍawọị
ḍawọị
ḍawọímọ
̣ 2
seíḍawọị
ḍaye
fugumó ̣ḍaye
koromó ̣ḍaye
n.m.f
.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ḍeḅuḍeḅú
a.
ḍeḅuḍeḅúmọ
ḍégerée
ḍégerée
ḍégeréemọ
ḍéin
ḍéinmọ
ḍerégu
ḍerégu
ḍerégumọ
ḍeregúḍeregú
ḍeregúḍeregúmọ
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
k
k
k
k
fg
fg
B. bluster; storm boisterously (of person,
waves)
roar; bluster; noisy self-asserting talk
blusteringly; snarlingly
chide; rebuke; scold; snarl at; shout at
boil, bubble up (as pot or vessel) effervesce;
give off bubbles of gas; sparkle (as wine);
foam; froth; lather (as soap)
boil; boiling; effervescence
grow as an excrescence; regrow; accrete;
grow together or into one
accretion
father; male parent; papa
father-land; native country
spear-side; father’s side or male side of family
agnate; patrilineal
one that deserves filial reverence; oldest
member of a house or family
fathers; leading men
posthumous
fatherless
= ḍaú ̣ḅọ
study; take pains to acquire knowledge of
something; learn; get knowledge or skill by
study or experience; commit to memory or
learn by heart; practise
make learn
study; thing to be secured by pains or
attention; practice
devotion of time and thought to acquiring
information and skill; learning
apprentice; learner
dream
dream
dream about
nightmare; incubus
fish-hook in general
(see avukpa)
long fishing line with many hooks on it;
boulter; trawl-line
taste without salt; insipid; tasteless;
unsavoury; wanting in flavour
insipidly
round; oval; circular
assume a round shape
ovally
gain full momentum in revolving or spinning
with full momentum
growl; roar
growl; growling; roar; roaring
growlingly
grope, search blindly
gropingly
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ḍéregúu
ḍéregúu
ḍéregúumọ
ḍeun
ḍéḅẹrẹ
̣
ḍéḅẹrẹ
̣
ḍéḅẹrẹmọ
̣
ḍẹrẹrẹḍẹgẹrẹ
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
ḍégẹré
ẹ̣
̣
a.
ḍégẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
ḍẹgị
adv.
v.t.
ḍẹgị
ḍéịn
̣
n.
a.
ḍéịnmọ
̣
ḍẹrégụ
̣
adv.
v.i.
& n.
n.
bo
d
d
motionless
stand motionless
motionlessly
first shape of bow or hem of a new canoe
lumbaginous
have lumbago
lumbaginously
hopping from place to place in a dance;
wavering from side to side under a heavy load
describes successful peeling-off of one object
from another, without damage
successfully peeling off
carry baby and place on the lap or in the arms
or on the waist with legs astride
such a means of carrying a baby
of successful peeling-off of one object from
another
successfully peeling off
same as ḍerégu
n.
laugh; giggle; titter; laughter; sound made in,
or act of, laughing
laugh; giggle; titter; make sound and
movement of face to express some lively
emotions
laughingly; excitedly
excite; rouse up (laughter)
see under abadí ̣
deride; mock; make fun of; scoff at; sneer at;
ridicule
mockery; derision
v.i.
v.t.
a.
(of rain) rain heavily; rain cats and dogs
fall on; rain upon
full; replete; rounded; protruding
sprout; begin to grow; swell out
swellingly
= ḍíḅáa
ḍíḅaláamọ
ḍíḅi
v.i.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
ḍíḅi
ḍiḅí
a.
v.t.
ḍiḅí
n.
ḍíḅimọ1
ḍiḅimó2̣
ḅiḅíye
ḍibi-áye
kịmịḍiḅikiri
adv.
v.t.
n.
pl.
n.
ḍẹrí ̣
ḍẹrí ̣
ḍẹrímọ
̣
ḍẹrịmó ̣
abadíḍẹrị
̣
mịé ̣ ḍẹrị
mịéḍẹrị
or
̣
mịéḍẹrịye
̣
ḍẹsụ
ḍẹsụmọ
ḍíḅáa
ḍíḅáa
ḍíḅáamọ
ḍíḅaláa
v.i.
&
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
= ḍíḅáamọ
sink; be buried; disappear below surface of
mud, etc.
miry; muddy; soft
bury; deposit in tomb; grave; put under
ground; hide in earth; inter; entomb; plant;
plant crop in ground
burial; burying of dead body; funeral;
interment
under soft mud
mire; bemire; plunge in mire; cause to sink
crop
crops
burying ground; cemetery; burying place;
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(cf. ḍéịn)
̣
(cf. ḍégẹré
ẹ)
̣
̣
(= ḍíḅaláa, cf.
ḍíbáa)
̣
ḍíḅolóo
ḍíḅolóo
ḍíḅolóomọ
ḍíḅúu
ḍíḅúu
ḍíḅúumọ
ḍiéḍie
ḍiéḍie
ḍiéḍiemọ
ḍigí
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.t.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
ḍigí
ḍigí ḍị
ḍigí ḍugó
ḍigí ḍụḅamó ̣
ḍigí ebimó ̣
ḍigí eneni
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
ḍigí-eneni
ḍigí fie
ḍigí gé ̣
ḍigí iderimọ
ḍigí ikelé
ḍigí iwomó ̣ ḍigí
iderimọ
ḍigí mịé ̣
ḍigímịéye
̣
ḍigí mọndị
ḍigímọndị
ḍigí mu
ḍigímu
ḍigín’ẹkị
ḍigí seimó ̣
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
ḍigíseimọ
ḍigí tọrú ̣ kụrụkụrụ
ḍigí tọrú ̣nọ
ḍigí tọrú ̣nọ
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
ḍigí tọrú ̣sin
ḍigíya
v.p.
v.i.
agbamó ̣ ḍigi
ḅẹlẹu ḍigi
ḅẹlẹu ḍigimọ
ebimó ̣ ḍigí
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
graveyard
swollen; inflamed (of sore)
swell out; protrude
protrusively
loathing; feeling of loss of appetite
loathe; lose appetite
loathingly; loathsomely
dusk; darker stage of twilight; duskiness
become dark; look dark or dusky
duskily
behold; see; become aware of by sight; take
notice; look; turn eyes in some direction;
glance; stare; ascertain by sight who, how,
whether, etc.; examine; make mental search;
enquire; inspect; manage; supervise;
superintend; defend; keep safe; protect; act for
an absentee; watch out; make informal call or
visit
look; glance; stare
look well after; attend to well
censure; reprimand
revere; reverence
attend to well; care well for
favour; look kindly upon; pity; have mercy
upon
pity; favour; friendly regard
talk of or about; comment on; make remark on
copy; transcribe; crib
look down upon; snub
look about or round
look upon and down (at person with anger or
contempt)
imitate; follow in someone’s steps
example; emulation
same as preceding
safe journey (excl.) safe journey!
escort; lead out
safe journey (excl.) safe journey!
choose; select out of number
dislike intensely; abhor; detest; despise; look
down upon; contemn; treat with disregard;
hate; loathe
abhorrence; detestation; contempt
look kindly upon; have mercy upon
envy; feel envy of
envy; grudging contemplation of more
fortunate persons or at their advantages
overlook
vie with one another; accompany one another;
look at one another
drop in; make informal call
look forward or ahead
hold in deep respect; look to in front
look or search for, well; attend to or take care
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odú ḍigi
v.p.
pegelé ḍigi
v.p.
sụọ ḍigí
tolumó ̣ ḍigi
tongú ḍigi
tọlọlímọ
̣ ḍigí ̣
tọlọmó ̣ ḍigí
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
wagịmó ̣ ḍigí
yọḍigiḅọ
v.p.
n.m.f
.
ḍigi
ḍigifuro
ḍigi-igbirigbiri
ḍigi-igbirigbiri
ḍigitịn
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
apioḍigi
ḅịlaḍigi
ḅoruḍigi
kesiḍigi
ofóḍigi
ógboróḍigi
osungboḍigi
ḍíi
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
ḍíi
ḍíi
ḍíimọ
(mịé)̣ ḍíimọ
ḍiri
ḍiriḅịágha
ḍiriḅeri
ḍiri gụọ
ḍirigụọ
ḍirigụọḅọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
ḍiri-ọsẹn
ḍiri
ḍiribodi
ḍiri tú ̣a
tú ̣aḍiri
ḍiri
ḍirigẹḅọ
ḍiri-igba
ḍirikiri
ḍiritelimọwarị
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
n.
ḍírikpíi
a.
t
v
v
v
v
cr
cr
of, well
look sharp; look out; take care of; be careful
about
look through and through; make careful
examination of a thing
make an informal visit
peep through
look back
make mental search
survey with searching glance; inspect
exhaustively or successively
look over; review
superintendent; supervisor; manager;
inspector; guardian; keeper; protector;
defender; watchman; janitor
bush cane; bush rope or liana
soft inner part (pulp) of rope
anchor-chain;
old cloth
mahogany tree
Khaya ivorensis A.
Chev. (Meliaceae)
rope made of bush-cane
see under ḅịlá
rope made of bush-cane
cane rope
see under ofó
slender thorny rope, which easily wounds feet
see under osungbo
dim; opaque; faintly visible; not clear or
bright;
become dim
dimness
dimly
make dim
A. leaf; medicine
green; fresh (as fresh maize)
leaf; foliage
have pernicious influence or practice
sorcery; wizardry
sorcerer; medicine-man; magician; conjurer
bitter-leaf
B. tobacco
case of tobacco
take snuff
snuff
C. book; record
scribe; secretary
bookcase
mission compound
school
cloudy; dark; turbid; muddy; murky; not
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lit. "leaf-soap";
(cf. inguḅouḍiri)
lit. "book-ground";
lit. "book-teachhouse";
clear; sombre
become dark; grow dark
turbidly
drowsy; sleepy
feel sleepy or drowsy
drowsily; sleepily
not clear; opaque
grow cloudy and dark
opaquely
know (how to do something); master; be
addicted to; be given over to;
adept; skilled or proficient person
ḍírikpíi
ḍírikpíimọ
ḍíroo
ḍíroo
ḍíroomọ
ḍísoo
ḍísoo
ḍísoomọ
ḍí ̣
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
ḍíḅọ
̣
ḍịá
n.m.f
.
v.t.
ḍíḅáa
̣
a.
ḍíḅáamọ
̣
ḍíḅaláa
̣
ḍíḅọló
̣
̣ọ
ḍíḅó
̣ ̣ọ
ḍíbó
̣ ̣ọmọ
ḍịḅó ̣ọ
adv.
a.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
ḍịḅó ̣ọmọ
adv.
ḍíẹ̣
v.i.
ḍịé ̣
v.t.
ḍịé ̣
ḍịé ̣
ḍịẹ
a.
n.
v.t.
fully
same as preceding
same as ḍíḅó
̣ ̣ọ
excessively full (of expanse of water)
excessively fully
of hard body entering substance of
consistency of mud; plunging (into semiliquid)
in the manner of a body plunging into
semiliquid
divide in parts; fall in parts; be set at variance;
share with others; diverge; branch (of road,
creek)
divide; separate into parts; split or break up
into parts
divided; not unanimous
division; schism; secession; separation
show
ḍịẹ
v.t.
introduce
ḍịékiri
̣
ḍịémọ
̣ 1
ḍịémọ
̣ 2
n.
adv.
v.t.
ḍịé ̣ pịrí ̣
ḍịépịrí
̣
̣ ye
ḍịé ̣ sigimọ
ḍịétịḅị
̣
ḍịéyọ
̣
ḍífị́ ịn
̣
ḍífị́ ịnmọ
̣
ḍịgịḍịgí ̣
ḍịgịḍịgí ̣
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
division; section; share; part
separately
allocate; apportion; assign; distribute; divide
into parts
donate; present
donation; gift; bestowal; thing presented
set, lay, or put aside
lot; portion; share
division; separation
small; underdeveloped (nose)
in an underdeveloped way
grow old; age
aged; having lived long (of person, plant,
etc.); well-matured (of fruits). It often goes
with "kpọ"
show; let be seen; manifest; evince; reveal;
disclose
full; replete; filled (of expanse of water)
66
(cf. ḍíḅáa, ḍíḅaláa,
̣
ḍíḅó
̣ ̣ọ)
(cf. ḍíḅáa,
ḍíḅọló
̣
̣
̣ọ)
yọmi ẹki i ḍịẹ show
me the place
inẹki mu a ḍịẹ
introduce (show)
me to her
ḍịgịḍịgímọ
̣
ḍíịn
̣
ḍíịn
̣
ḍíkaráa
̣
ḍíkaráamọ
̣
ḍịrịmó ̣
adv.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.t.
ḍịrọ
ḍịrọ-erí
ḍịrọyọ
ḍíró
̣ ̣ọ
ḍíró
̣ ̣ọ
ḍísẹn
̣
v.t.
n.pl.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
ḍísẹn
̣
ḍoḅíi
ḍoḅíimọ
ḍogódi
n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
ḍói
ḍói
ḍóigha
ḍoiya
v.i.
n.
a.
v.t.
ḍoiya
n.
ḍóiyọ
ódu ḍói
n.
v.p.
ḍoi
v.t.
ḍoimó ̣
v.t.
ḍoimó ̣tuḅo
pọgó ̣ ḍoi
ḍokoḅíi
ḍokoḅíimọ
ḍorí
ḍorímọ
ḅịtéḍoríye
̣
ḍosí
ḍosí
ḍowéi
n.
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
n.m.
aḅaláḍowei
ḍowoi
ḍọḅíị̣
ḍọḅíịmọ
̣
ḍọḍó ̣
n.m.
n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
agedly
faint; dim; indistinct
faint; give way (of light)
stumpy; dwarfish
stumpily; dwarfishly
force down; compress; (e.g. plant growing
under weight)
mend; repair (broken nets or cloth)
mends; repaired holes
mend; repaired hole
humpy; hunchy
grow hump-back
sneeze; make explosive sound in involuntarily
expelling anything that irritates interior of
nostrils
act or sound of sneezing
plunge into mire or soft body
plunging softly
alternating birth of a boy, girl, boy or vice
versa
change; become different
change; improvement
changeless
exchange; interchange; give or receive
something in return for another
interchange; reciprocal exchange (of things)
between two persons, etc. alteration
change; improvement; substitution; alteration
disguise; show in false colours; cast off or
shed skin (snake); slough; moult (birds);
exuviate (snakes, reptiles, shell-fishes)
change; take another instead of; vary; make
different; diversify; modify; modulate;
reform; amend; adjust; regulate
barter; exchange (goods or immaterial things)
for other goods; swop or swap
barter; trade or traffic by exchange
vary tone or pitch
plunging softly
knit; weave
weave together
loom; knitting needle
jump; leap; vault; caper; bounce; bound;
rebound; spring; gallop; canter
f
f
f
bound; jump; leap; vault; spring; saltation
cyprinid fish; ladyfish
subspecies of Barilius niloticus
tarpon
softly
cold; chill; damp
67
(cf. ḍọḅíị,̣ ḍokoḅíi)
(cf. ḍoḅíi)
Barilius niloticus;
Elops sp.
Megalops atlanticus
(cf. ḍoḅíi)
ḍọḍó ̣
ḍọḍó ̣
ḍọḍó ̣mọ1
ḍọḍó ̣mọ1
ḍọgí ̣
a.
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
ḍọgí ̣
ḍọgí ẹ̣ rị
ḍọgí p
̣ agamó ̣
ḍọgíye
̣
erema ḍọgị
ḍọkọḍọkó ̣
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
ḍọkọḍọkó ̣mọ
ḍọmó ̣
adv.
n.
ḍọmó ̣ mịẹ
ḅió ḍọmọ
ḅióḍọmọ(ye)
ḅióḍọmọḅọ
ḍó ̣ọ
ḍó ̣ọ
ḍó ̣ọ
ḍó ̣ọmọ
ḍọrọ
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.m.
ḍọụ
a.
ḍọụḍọụ
ḍọụmó ̣
ḍó ̣ụmọ
ḍọụyọ
ḍú
n., a.,
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
n.
v.t.
ḍu1
n.
ḍu ḍịẹ
ḍufịḅọ
ḍu2
ḍúḅeḍúḅe
v.p.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.i.
ḍuḅée
ḍuḅéemọ
ḍuḅéleḍuḅéle
a.
adv.
v.i.
ḍúḅelée
a.
cold; not heated; chilly; damp; temperate; icy
become cold
make cold; dampen
in a chilly manner; in a cold manner; coldly
need; find; look for; want; call for; require;
desire; wish for; be lacking in quality or
unequal to requirement
want; lack; need
discover by trial; find; come across
discover by search
need; requirement; desire; want
chase, pursue, run after (women)
obverse; narrower at base or point of
attachment than at top; slim
obversely; slimly
peace; quiet; tranquillity; mental calm;
freedom from civil disorder or war; cessation
of war or hostility
make or bring about peace
comfort; consolation
comforter; consoler
f
calm; shady; cool
become cool
cool; coolness
coolly
barracuda
calm and clear (of sky; air) serene; unruffled;
placid; tranquil; unperturbed (of sea); mild
and peaceful
insipid; flat; vapid (of drink)
(pl. ḍọgị-áye)
Sphyraena spp. cf.
mindi-ógboro,
ogborokílo
same as dọḍó ̣;
appease; assuage; calm; pacify; soothe
calmly; placidly; etc.
shade
draw; dip and fill (water); scoop (food, soup,
etc.)
legacy; material or immaterial thing handed
down by predecessor; bequest
legate; bequeath
legatee; recipient of legacy
mourn for a husband (of wife)
spring up and down in water; bob up and
down
buoyant
buoyantly
spring up and down in water; bob up and
down
buoyant
68
(cf. ḍuḅée)
(cf. ḍúḅelée)
(cf. ḍúḅelée)
(cf. ḍuḅée,
ḍúḅeḍúbe,
ḍuḅéleḍuḅéle)
ḍúḅeléemọ
ḍúḅilíi
ḍúḅilíi
ḍúḅilíimọ
ḍuḅu
ḍuḅuru
ḍuḅurumó ̣
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
ḍugó1
ḍugó1
ḍugó ḍị
ḍugóḍị
ḍugóḍị
ḍugóḍịgha
ḍugó koro
ḍigí ḍugo
ḍigíḍugó
ye ékị
̣ tịḅị ḍugómọ
ḅẹrẹ ḍugó
ḍugó2
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
a.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
ḍugó2
ḍugómọ
ḍugóya
ḍugomó ̣ya
ḍugomó ̣yamọ
ḍugó paga
ḍugó tolu
nụnọ ḍugóya
ḍugía
ḍúkuru
ḍukurumó ̣
ḍúkúu
ḍúkúumọ
ḍúmáa
n.
v.t.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
ḍúmáa
ḍúmáamọ
ḍúmaḍúma
ḍuré
bálaḍure
ḅióḍure
ekuréḍure
ogbóḍure
ọfọú ̣ḍure
ọkú ̣lọḍure
ḍúrée
ḍúréemọ
ḍúreeḍuree
ḍúreeḍúreemọ
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
ft
buoyantly
plump; rounded; chubby;
become plump and rounded
plumply
grave; tomb
be chocked with silt; be silted up
choke with silt; form new earth and push up to
cover former depression (as earthworm,
rodents, etc.)
talk; converse or communicate ideas by
spoken words; express, utter, discuss, in
words; address; lecture
talk; address; lecture
have the power of speech
fond of talking
talkativeness
dumb
take notice of; mind
censure; reprimand; blame
censure; reprimand; blame
accuse; charge with a fault; indict (person)
make statement in a case
chase; follow; pursue (with intent to capture
or kill); go or come after (moving thing or
person); proceed along
chase; pursuit
follow; come after in order or time
chase one another
consecutive; following continuously
consecutively
proceed from; originate from
go through or by
go to fish in a creek
accompany; go with
dress up with cloth
adorn; array; attire; clothe; decorate; dress
stupid; dull; slow-witted
stupidly; dully; slow-wittedly
puff; reek; emit puff or smoke, air, odour,
whiff
puff; reek; whiff
come out or up in puffs
give out puffs of smoke in succession
thwart or cross seat in a canoe
thwart for sail with hole in centre
inner thwart for the support of a mast, etc.
the rear thwart
middle thwart
the rear thwart in a war canoe
the front thwart
stupid; thoughtless
stupidly; thoughtlessly
grope; search blindly
gropingly
69
lit. ‘scoop creek’
(cf. ḍúmaḍúma,
ḍú ̣mú ̣ụ, ḍúuḍúu)
(cf. ḍúmáa)
ḍuru
n.
ḍurupọgọ
pọgó ̣ ḍuru
pọgó ̣ ḍurumọ
ḍurúkuḍurúku
ḍurúkuḍurúku
ḍurúkuḍurúkumọ
ḍúrukúu
n.
v.i.
v.t.
id.
v.i.
adv.
a.
ḍúrukúu
ḍurukúmọ
ḍúrukúumọ
ḍúsi
ḍúu
ḍúumọ
ḍúuḍúu1
ḍúuḍúumọ
ḍúuḍúu-oḅogu
ḍúuḍúu2
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
ḍú ̣
v.t.
ḍú ̣
ḍụá
n.
v.t.
ḍụáḅẹ
n.m.f
.
a.
ḍụḅá
ḍụḅá tẹịn
mịé ̣ ḍụḅamó ̣
ḍụḅarị
ḍú ̣ḅụụ
v.i.
adv.p
.
a.p.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
ḍụḅụụḍụḅụụ
v.i.
ḍụḅụụḍụḅụụmọ
ḍụẹị
ḍụẹị-abanga
ḍụẹị-amá
ḍụẹịbun
ḍụẹịḅọrọmọ
ḍụẹịdemọ
ḍụẹịḍiḅi
ḍụẹịḍụẹị
ḍụẹịḍụẹí f̣ ụrụ
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
a.
a.p.
ḍụḅá
ḍụḅamó ̣ ḅara
total loss of voice; slight huskiness or
hoarseness of voice, natural or due to a cold,
cough, singing, etc.
huskiness; hoarseness; veiled voice
be affected with hoarseness or veiled voice
make hoarse; cause to have veiled voice
describes groping, searching blindly
gropingly
cloudy; dark; murky; dismal; dreary; gloomy;
sombre; muddy; turbid not clear; dingy; dirtylooking; dull-coloured; daft; inept; foolish;
silly
darken; become dark or overcast
darken; make dark, overcast
darkly; dismally; drearily
support with (as walking stick)
cold (from a sudden blast of cold air)
in the manner of a sudden cold blast
breezy; wind-swept; pleasantly windy
breezily
windy cold
emit smoke or visible vapour; reek; steam (of
hot food, etc.)
push away with a stick; punt; toss; throw
aside or up with horns
act of pushing; thrust
defend; ward off attack from; save; rescue;
deliver or preserve from danger or misfortune
defender; saviour
(in pọgó ̣ duru)
(cf. ḍú ̣rụkú ̣ụ)
(cf. ḍúmáa)
big; enormous; extensive (of families); huge;
large; immense; vast; heavy; unwieldy; grown
up
develop; increase; become fuller; bigger; etc.
largely; immensely
sh
i
biggest; largest; etc.
enlarge; magnify
reck
germinate; sprout; bud; ooze out slowly, as
blood
spout; issue forcibly in a jet, as blood spouts
from wound
in spouts or jets
corpse; dead human body; carcass
shrub sp.
land of the dead
beetle sp.
darkest part of early morning before dawn
charm to ward off evil spirit
funeral; burial
plenty of corpses
smelling like corpse;
70
(cf. ḍụḅụụḍụḅụụ)
(cf. ḍú ̣bụụ)
Cassia corymbosia
ḍụẹịḍụẹí f̣ ụrụ
ḍụẹị fẹngụ
n.
v.p.
ḍụẹịfẹngụ
ḍụẹị-igba
ḍụẹị-ile
ḍụẹị-ilé
ḍụẹị-onwoin
ḍụẹị-ọkịanlalá
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
t
t
i
b
cadaveric smell
transfer dead body by charms from one burial
place to another
such transfer of a body
coffin
male ile tree with flowers only and no fruits
ile tree without fruits
ring-worm
African pigmy kingfisher
kingfisher spp.; African pygmy kingfisher,
malachite kingfisher
ḍụẹị-ọkịn-alala
ḍụẹịpụraye
ḍú ̣fíịn
̣
ḍú ̣fíịnmọ
̣
ḍú ̣gẹléẹ
ḍú ̣gẹléẹ
ḍú ̣gẹlẹ́ ẹmọ
ḍú ̣gụḍú ̣gụ
ḍú ̣gụḍú ̣gụ
ḍú ̣gụḍú ̣gụmọ
ḍú ̣kú ̣ụ
ḍú ̣kú ̣ụ
ḍú ̣kú ̣ụmọ
ḍú ̣kú ̣ụyọ
ḍú ̣mụḍú ̣mụ
ḍú ̣mụḍú ̣mụmọ
ḍú ̣mú ̣ụ
n.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
hearse
underdeveloped (of nose)
in an underdeveloped manner
stodgy; bulgy
swell out
in a bulgy state
sulky; sullen; morose
scowl; look sour
sulkily; scowlingly
jut; project; protrude; stick out
protrusive; protrudent
protrusively
jut; protrusion; projection; crest
come out or up in steady puffs
in puffs
puff; emit puff of smoke
ḍú ̣mú ̣ụ
n.
ḍú ̣mú ̣ụmọ
ḍú ̣rẹḍú ̣rẹ
ḍú ̣réẹ̣
ḍú ̣réẹmọ
̣
ḍú ̣rụkú ̣ụ
ḍú ̣rụkú ̣ụ
ḍú ̣rụkú ̣ụmọ
ḍú ̣séẹ̣
ḍú ̣séẹmọ
̣
adv.
small quantity of smoke being emitted
steadily from a point
in a faint steady flow
unexpectedly small (of many things)
unexpectely small (of one thing)
in an unexpectedly small manner
cloudy; dark; dismal; dreary; gloomy; sombre
darken; become dark
darkly; dismally; drearily
few; scanty; smallish
scantily
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
71
Ceyx pictus (cf.
ẹgbẹíntekeleḅa;
̣
ọkịn-álala)
family Alcedinidae;
Ceyx pictus; Alcedo
cristata (cf.
ẹgbẹíntekeleḅa;
̣
ọkịn-álala)
(cf. ḍú ̣mú ̣ụ)
(cf. ḍúmáa,
ḍú ̣mụḍú ̣mụ)
(cf. ḍú ̣réẹ)
̣
(cf. ḍú ̣rẹḍú ̣rẹ)
(cf. ḍúrukúu)
E.
ebé
ebebegé
n.m.
n.
po
tr
clay water-pot
ladder; small ladder-like construction used as
fetish
float carved for line and hook or boulter;
drogue
beauty; enchantment; lustre; glamour;
goodness; excellence
beautiful; charming; fair; comely; handsome;
decent; becoming; decorous; seemly; fine;
good; magnificent; splendid; excellent; of
striking merit; satisfactory; virtuous; bright
(of day); well-behaved (esp. of child); saintly;
holy
bonanza; good-luck; good-fortune
in a good way, method, manner or style;
properly; thoroughly; well; satisfactorily;
rightly; sufficiently; with care or
completeness; expediently
good humour or temper; tender heart
speaking kindly (of spirit esp.)
same as ébi-ifie
gospel; good-news; good tidings
in good time
existent from the first; earliest; original;
primitive (time)
affectionate; benevolent; charitable; generous;
kind; liberal
benevolence; charitableness; generosity;
kindness; liberality; munificence
well; in a good manner; beautifully;
charmingly; fairly; handsomely; decently;
finely; decorously; magnificently; splendidly;
excellently; saintly; much (beaten)
beautify; adorn
kill (esp. python or sacred thing)
it is all right
Saints
ebengere
n.
ft
ebí
n.
ebí
a.
ebi-andí ̣
ebíḅara
̣
n.
adv.
ebiḅío
ebíḅịḅịfie
ébi-ene
ebi-egberí
ebí-ifie
ébi-ifié
n.
a.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
ebímịẹ
a.
ebímịẹ
n.
ebimó1̣
adv.
ebimó2̣
ebimó3̣
ebínimí
ebi-óngu
ebítẹ
ebí tẹịn
ebítẹmẹ
ebítimi
v.t.
v.t.
phr.
n.pl.p
ers.
a.
a.p.
n.
n.
ebítimi kọn
ébiabúru
v.p.
n.
cr
enough; adequate; sufficient
better; fairer; etc.
Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit
good position; good living; favourable
circumstances
acquire wealth
cassava in general
ébíḅọílagha
̣
n.
g
grass sp.
ébieséni
n.m.
f
fish sp.; West African lungfish
eḅí-nẹ-á-dité ̣
n.m.
cloth type
72
(euphemism)
Manihot esculenta
(Euphorbiaceae)
Paspalum
conjugatum (lit. "no
good man gets to
me")
Protopterus
annectens
ebirí
eḅe
eḅegu
éḅere
n.
n.
n.m.
adv.
éḅeregha
éḅeregha
eḅila
eḅilada
eḅué
eḅué koro
edegba
edení
adv.
a.
n.
n.
n.
subj.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
edenígbasa
edenípụmbalaḅa
edenítongu
edésee
edéseemọ
édi
edí
edigalaḅá
Ée
Éée
eferuka
eferuka
eferuka
éfuéfu, efuefu
egbe
egbalá
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
excl.
excl.
n.
m.f.
neut.
n.
n.m.
n.
egberí
égberíḅịḅị
égberíkụra
égberíkụra
égberíkụra-egberi
égberíkụra-ongu
égberípọgọ
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.pl.
n.
Ayeḅa-egberi
ebi-egberí
sei-egberí
egbésu
ége
egé
egé pan
égebési
egéle
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.m.
égele-akaụn
egélewarị
egele
n.
n.
n.
wt
fg
f
hi
bp
pp
b
go
m
b
t
gale; hurricane; storm; tornado; tempest
fishing sticks
unidentified large catfish sp. catfish
far; long-past, (as a greeting, how long since
we met!)
long past; too much
far-off; long (time)
mat in general
hip joints
dew-drop
dew fell
order Siluriformes
head of cocoyam
shelf over fire place on which things are put to
dry
sticks for crossing such shelf
soot; cobweb-like hangings on edení
back of fire place
flat (of head)
flatly
special instinctive power cf. akúsi
trap; snare, plot
circle; (in drum language) drink
exclamation expressing mockery, contempt
exclamation, expressing surprise, dislike
idiomatic
first child;
first part of new wine
medicine causing itching
bird sp. (unidentified) with spotted plumage
calabash or gourd
Lagenaria siceraria
(Cucurbitaceae)
account of event; news; story; tale; tidings
ancient language
ancient; belonging to times long past
of old; old time
legend
men of old
line of thought or trend of an argument or
statement
the Scriptures
good news; gospel
bad news or tidings
altar or raft for placing war trophies of skulls
olive colobus monkey
Colobus verus
shout of victory; acclaim, acclamation
shout a shout of victory
velvet
small birds in general
(cf. ofoni1; ọgó ̣nọofoni)
tree sp. and fruit;
cf. ọsịmaịn
nest of birds
war or wrestling song
73
egele gbán
egele-ideri
v.p.
n.
egele-ideri
v.t.
egéleabo
egéleḅurugbasa
egélefịfịyaị
égelége
égeléma
egéleu-igboun
egilá
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
egilá mangị
v.p.
ḅoróḅu-egila
egilá2
egilá koro
egulube
egusi
n.p.
n.
subj.
&
v.i.
n.m.
n.
Éi
excl.
eín
eínya
éke
pron.
poss.
pron.
n.m.
m
[rat; mouse] black rat
ekereḅúpẹlẹ
n.m.
m
bushbuck
piri-eke
ékeḅeri
ékekoru
igbokiri-eke
turu-éke
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
m
h
s
da
m
pygmy mounse
purslane
royal python
guinea-pig; rabbit
N igerian white-toothed shrew
tụrụ-eke
n.m.
m
N igerian musk shrew
ekeké
ekeli
n.
n.
ekeliḅọ
ekeliḅọ
ekelimó ̣
ekelimọ
ekéra
ekere
n.m.f
.
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
v.i.
n.
mi
kala-ékere
opu-ékere
n.
n.
mi
mi
tr
t
fr
c
mi
sing war or wrestling song
obsequies performed during lyke-wake of
traditional priest or priestess
perform such funeral rites for a traditional
priest or priestess
bag woven with leaves of pandanus
tree sp.
fruits of a certain tree
wrestling match
style of jumping high jump from sideways
barnacle
clapperless iron bell. a) small, double used for
masquerade, fishermen etc. b) large single
type thus to call assembly
eat
dinner
dark; mist; darkness
grow dark
i
cr
locust
melon
(idiomatic: used by
adults only)
(idiomatic)
lit. "darkness falls";
Citrullus vulgaris <
Yoruba?
shout of exclamation expressing fear or grief,
sorrow, regret, etc.
they, them
their
Rattus rattus. Also
recorded as eke
Tragelaphus
scriptus
Mus minutoides
Python regius
Crocidura nigeriae.
Also recorded as
tụrụ-éke. Cf. ịsụ
Crocidura nigeriae.
cf. ịsụ
skull; cranium
deformation; deformity; malformation of part
of body
deformed person
be deformed or put out of shape
deform; disfigure; put out of shape
with deformity
talk noisily
hollowed rectangular woodblock beaten with
sticks as rhythmic accompaniment to music
small ekere woodblock
big ekere woodblock
74
cf. ikiriko
ọmụngụ-arụ-ekere
ekerefarịḅó ̣dọgú ̣gh
a
n.
n.m.
mi
i
special types of ekere beaten in war canoe
tailor-ant
ékidi
n.
m
lorisid spp.
ekiné
ekiri
ekiriḍiri
n.
n.
n.
ms
d
sh
masquerade club
leprosy; elephantiasis graecorum
shrub sp.
ekiritụaḅọ
d
leper; person with leprosy
ekisé
ékpe
ekpeḅa
ekpékpaị
ekpékpaị
ékpete
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
ekpú
n.m.
ekpukelemekpú
ekué
n.
n.m.
ekuékue
ekuékue
ekuemó ̣
ekúlein
ekuré1
ekurédụ
ekuré kọrịmọ
ekuré2
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
ekuré kaụn
ebi-ekuré
v.p.
n.
sei-ekuré
ekurékondu
n.
n.
ekurékọrịmọḅó ̣
ekwé
ekwékwe
ekwemó ̣
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
da
hi
dc
ga
f
b
section
he-goat
mat for sleeping
noisy shout
shout noisily
dance for funeral of a big man. Without
singing. In refreshments all the varieties of
fishing technique practised by the N embe
round box made of grass material in N orthern
N igeria; similar box made of raffia in Eastern
N igeria
carved discus for children’s play
fish sp.; jack; horse mackerel
shout noisily
noisy shouting
end a woven work
African black kite
stern of boat or canoe
abaft; nearer the stern than bow; aft
steer a boat
anything which a person dashes foot against
by accident; dashing of foot against
something
dash foot against something; stub one’s toes
dashing or stubbing of foot on the propitious
side; (right for someone immediately followed
by a brother, left for someone immediately
followed by a sister)
dashing of foot on the unlucky side
three thwarts after the rear thwart in a war
canoe
steerer; steersman
same as ekué
same as ekuékue
same as ekuemó ̣
75
(lit. "the one who
beats ekere doesn’t
paddle")
potto, Perodicticus
potto; Calabar
angwantibo,
Arctocebus
calabarensis
Senna alata
Linn.Roxb.
[formerly Cassia]
(LeguminosaeCaesalpinioidae)
[Caranx spp.?]
family Carangidae.
cf. sọkọ-ekué
Milvus migrans
elégbesíya
̣
elege
elegedí
elegí
elegí
elekedí
ekekéti
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
elemu
a.
elemu-ifie
elemu-ifie
elemukụra
elemumó ̣
elemu-ó ̣vọ
elepein
n.
a.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
elilá
elilá
elilá ḅirimọ
v.i.
n.
v.p.
émein
n.m.
m
émeinḅiriawọ
emi
emuké
emuké fin
énde
ene
eneḅá
n.
v.i.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.
n.
tp
eneḅá
eneḅiriḅa
v.i.
a.
enemábịsẹ
enemíbịsẹ
̣
ené na noin na
adv.
adv.
adv.p
.
subj.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
adv.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.p.
ene noin
ene-ogbo
ḅa-éne
noin-ene
mị-éne
pị-éne
sei-éne
eneké
eneni
enéni
enéni
enénimọ
ḍigí eneni
da
bp
f
f
dc
dc
i
cat
fore or hind-limb; upper or lower limb
same as elekedí
crafty; cunning; artful; wily
be cunning; artful, etc.
half-gallon jar
fish sp.; cichlid perch sp.
aged; having lived long; old; ancient;
primitive
old time; of old
old-time; ancient; primitive; olden (days)
old year; days of yore
age; cause to grow old
old testament
fish sp.; N iger hind [orange-spotted seaperch?]
be feverish
fever
give special medicinal bath treatment to a
child for fever
manatee; sea-cow
kapok pods
be; exist; live (in)
ekiné dance; akin to ẹlụ but stronger
dance such step
small tsetse fly
day; cloud of rain
day-break; dawn; first light; day-light;
morning; the next day; tomorrow
dawn; begin to grow light
untimely;
everyday, day by day
all the day; throughout the day
throughout day and night; in day and night
night falls
wt
wt
mid-day
daylight; first light
night-fall
today; this day
the other day
rain-cloud
cloud
compassion; grace; mercy
pitiful; mournful; sorrowful; compassionate
call for pity; be pitiful
sorrowfully; pityingly
look kindly upon; have mercy upon; favour;
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family Cichlidae.
cf. adi, atán,
ịtaḅalá, ọkpọtụḅa
Cephalopholis nigri
Trichechus
senegalensis
cf. eneḅiriḅa fi
‘untimely death’
pity
mercy; pity; favour, etc.
make pitiable
pitiless
(beg for) alms
engule
ení
énjẹl, énjẹlị
enume
n.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
& n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
pron.
n.m.
n.m.
enumede
n.m.
b
enumetandị
n.m.
f
epe
epe-injiri
epegi
epeká
a.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
co
cl
epekámọ
epékamọ
epelá
adv.
v.t.
n.
epelá-epela
epelákuru
epelá toi
epelépele
a.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
f
epéliḅa
eperi1
eperi2
n.
n.
n.
bp
bm
ap
eperi3
epié
n.
n.
t
shoulder
scab; scar of wound; cicatrice
foot of periwinkles, barnacles, some snails
and roots of pandanus
chaff of grain; husk; bran
Christmas bush and its fruit
épini
epiyé
epu
n.
n.
n.m.
m
halfpenny piece
same as above
pangolin spp.
epulé
epumú
épuperepu
n.
n.
n.m.
ḍigí-eneni
mịé ̣ enenimó ̣
enenifá
engi
engiḅọ
beggar; pauper
i
t
ga
ga
s
maggot; larva (of fly); gentle (rare)
they
angel
mature palm tree with no remains of rough
growth on stem
hawk sp. (unidentified) which frequents the
tops of palm trees
tailspot ctenopoma; [climbing perch?],
described as freshwater catfish that climbs
palm trees to eat the fruits
yellowish
real India cloth of yellow colour
fragment
shout and go about restlessly (with news);
yearn
yearningly
cause to yearn
board game; draughts; chess; deceitful
manoeuvre
of a checked pattern; chequered
draughts- or chess-board
play draughts; be tricky with a person
fish sp.; razorfish
roll of fufu; lump; clod
mould
snake sp.
77
< English
family Accipitridae
Ctenopoma
kingsleyae. = ọḍịa
e.g. fịnị-épegi eri
Xyrichthys sp. cf.
pẹmbụ
Alchornea
cordifolia
(Euphorbiaceae) =
epiyé
? < English
long-tailed pangolin
(black-bellied
pangolin),
Uromanis
tetradactyla, tree
pangolin (whitebellied pangolin),
Phataginus
tricuspis
(see kirífofo)
ere
éreḅára
erekoro
erema
ereman’ama
eremayaị
a.
n.
n.
n.pl.
n.pl.
n.
erére
eretoi
eréwaị
a.
n.m.
n.
ere warị sụọ
v.p.
erewarịsụọ
eréwọ
erewó ̣tọgu
erekein
erému
n.
n.pl.
n.f.
n.
n.m.
erére
a.
eretoi
éri
éri-ikpo
éripogu
éripogu
eri
eri
erimó1̣
erimó2̣
erí
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
eseú
eseú-eseu
-esi
n.
a.
suff.
esín
esín
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
esínfa
esinmó ̣
a.
v.t.
kụmọ esinmó ̣
a.p.
s
p
p
f
s
cr
dc
feminine
left hand
flat-back fall; throw on back in wrestling
women
womenfolk; womankind
nervous disease which makes the patient turn
an imbecile; apoplexy
all-women
snake sp.
womanly courting or courtship; dress up and
go about to attract men
go in to a woman, usually in the night,
without previous arrangement and with
intention to commit rape
such action when committed
young women
girl; maiden
mourning; black head-tie used for mourning
fish sp.; [sea perch?]; greater soapfish (‘the
mother soapfish’)
all-women
snake
thread
reel; spool; bobbin
yam
bundle of thread
dance; spin; whirl (as of top when propelled)
spinning; whirling
in a spinning manner
cause to spin; fillip or flip (a top)
unknown place; as in
column; row; line
sporadic; in successive lines; in patches
suffix meaning ‘score’ or ‘twenties’, as mési,
tresí, iniesí, (two, three, four score or
twenties), i.e. forty; sixty; eighty, etc.
fear; be afraid of; be afraid; be alarmed; be
frightened; have uneasy anticipation of evil;
revere; reverence
fear; painful emotion caused by impending
danger or evil; state of alarm; dismay;
consternation; fright; horror
fearless
alarm; appal; apprehend; consternate; cow;
dismay; excite; frighten; horrify; terrify;
affright; scare; intimidate
alarming; appalling, awful, dreadful; fearful;
78
lit. "woman-hand";
<eré-ere
Rypticus
saponaceus
cf. erére ama
‘Amazonian
village’, ‘village
with no man but all
women’ (see under
ere)
(see under ere)
dụa yọ erí ‘some
foreign place’; tó ̣
eri ‘what unknown
place?’
frightful; horrible; horrid; terrible
starch; starchy-meal
A. road; way; highway; path; track; route;
passage; entrance; course; lane; street
pathless
footpath; footway
by-path; lane
public road; main road; street; highway
B. way; means by which a result is brought
about; pecuniary resources;
elephantiasis; swollen condition of leg
thick discoid fishing stick fitted with a long
handle in the centre and used for stirring up
water to drive fish; any improvised stick used
in driving fish
shake water to drive fish with eti stick
stir up water or drive fish with such stick
log of wood (sometimes shaped) used as seat,
now mostly used in shrines
shout of exclamation expressing sorrow
ten in game of agụḅá
channel; bed of running water
fish sp. grass-eater
esun
etéli
n.
n.
etélifa
ḅụọ-eteli
kala-ételi
opu-ételi
etéli
a.
n.
n.
n.
eti
eti
n.
n.
d
fg
eti tụa
eti tụa
etiti
v.p.
v.t.
n.
ft
ft
éu
eu
ewere
eweri
excl.
num.
n.
n.m.
f
ewu
n.
la
ezigala(ga)
ézizi
n.
n.
dk
t
sand- or mud-band in the middle of a river;
hurst; shoal
wine
tree sp., the roots are used to redden camwood
suffixed to verbs in reported speech, showing
a command: e.g.
Aboh in the Mid-Western Region
native black soap, first obtained (perhaps)
from Aboh
masquerade type
masquerade type
masquerade type
masquerade type
pygymy hippopotamus
cf. dụa etéli ‘some
means or source’
Distichodus
rostratis
Ẹ
-ẹ
suff.
Ẹ́bẹ
ébẹn’ọsẹn
̣
n.
n.
Ẹbé ̣
Ẹbényingi
̣
Ẹbẹyaịkpụ
Ẹ́bẹta
ẹbẹịn
p.n.
p.n.
p.n.
p.n.
n.
ms
ms
ms
ms
m
ébẹré
̣
̣
n.
mi
ébẹtó
̣
̣rụ
ẹbí ̣
n.m.
v.t.
f
ẹbíkị
̣
n.
dc
ẹbíkị
̣
v.i.
dc
xylophone resting on logs over a pit in the
ground
guard against: cf. odu ébị
̣ ‘guard against self’
(cf. kẹgí)̣
dance step in which the back only is shaken to
rhythm
dance such step
79
orí mẹnẹ ḅóẹ ‘he
said: "Come"‘
Hexaprotodon
liberiensis
(N igerian pygmy
hippopotamus, H. l.
heslopi)
ẹbịrị
n.
ẹbịrị
a.
ẹbịrị
ẹbịrímọ
̣
ẹbụbú ̣
v.i.
v.t.
n.
fo
ẹbụlé ̣
n.m.
ms
ẹḅé ̣
v.aux
.
ẹḅéạ
v.aux
.
ẹḅẹḅáa
adv.
as far as, as for: e.g.
ẹḅẹḅáa
conj.
if, in the even that: e.g.
ẹḅẹḅẹ
conj.
if (when followed by rẹ): e.g.
ẹḅẹgha
v.aux
.
said ... would not; it is used in questioning a
negative future or conditional statement
expressing speaker’s will or intention: e.g.
ẹḅéka
̣
ẹḅélụ
̣
ẹḅélụmọ
̣
ẹḅẹlú ̣ḅẹlụ
conj.
a.
adv.
n.m.
albeit; even if; nevertheless; though
flat and small (nose)
flatly (of nose)
flatfish e.g. dab or flounder; larger kinds are
halibut, turbot; loosely applied to small rays
and skates
ẹḅẹrẹḅaḅio
n.
space between toes or fingers: e.g.
ẹḅịla
n.
ẹdé ̣
ẹdégẹrẹ
̣
ẹdẹgú ̣
ẹdẹní
n.
n.m.
v.i.
v.i.
ẹdésẹ
̣
a.
village or group of people owing allegiance to
another; vassal
altar; rack
slow; sluggish
urinate in drops and often unawares (of small
child)
flat (of head)
f
f
caper; frisk; gambol; mad frolic; erratic
action; prank
frisky; full of erratic actions; prankish;
frolicsome; sportive; rascally; mischievous (of
child)
caper; frisk; gambol; play pranks
make frisky or prankish
fufu in which yam or cocoyam is mixed and
pounded with ripe plantain
apron or silk cloth covering the waist front of
a masquerade
said ... would; it is used in reporting a plain
future or conditional statement expressing
speaker’s will or intention; e.g.
said that ... would have ..., but; it is used in
reporting a future action that was never done:
e.g.
80
ó fịnyú ̣mẹ ẹḅé ̣ ‘he
said he would eat’
ó fịnyú ̣mẹ ẹḅéa,
̣
eín ḅọụgha ‘he said
that he would eat,
but they did not
agree’
orí ẹḅẹḅáa, ó ḅoyo
‘as far as he was
concerned, he was
coming’
orí mughá ẹḅẹḅáa,
á mughá ‘if he
does not go, I do
not go’
ó mughá ẹḅẹḅẹ ré,̣
á mughá ‘if he
does not go then I
do not go’
ó ḅarị mughíẹ̣
ẹḅẹgha? ‘he would
not go again, did he
not say so?’
order
Pleuronectiformes
(flatfish); order
Rajiformes
ḅụọ-ẹḅẹrẹḅaḅio
‘space btween
toes’; ḅaráẹḅẹrẹḅaḅio ‘space
between fingers’
éẹ̣
ẹféfẹịn
̣
ẹféfẹịn
̣
ẹféfẹịnmọ
̣
ẹfẹké ̣
excl.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
ẹfẹké-ala
̣
n.m.
ẹfẹn
ẹfẹnmọ
ẹfẹngẹlé ̣
a.
adv.
n.
ẹféngụye
̣
ẹfẹrẹ
ẹfẹrẹtịḅị
ẹfẹrẹyaị
ẹfẹrẹyaịwarị
fífị-ẹfẹrẹ
̣
pánị-ẹfẹrẹ
ẹfẹrẹfẹrẹ
ẹfẹrụ1
ẹfẹrụfa
ẹfẹrụ-ẹfẹru
ẹfẹrụ2
ẹfẹrụma
ẹfẹú ̣
ẹfẹú ̣-ẹfẹụ
ẹfẹụ-ẹfẹú ̣mọ
ẹgẹlẹmó1̣
ẹgẹlẹmó2̣
ẹgélẹụ
̣
n.
n.m.
n.
n.pl.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
égẹnẹdíya
̣
ẹgẹnẹmindi
ẹgérẹ
̣
ẹgịrígịrị
̣
ẹgụé ̣
ẹgụẹịn
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ẹgụẹíṇ
n.
ẹgụwé ̣
ẹgụwẹịn
ẹgbé ̣
ẹgbẹgẹlé ̣
ẹgbé ̣ gụa
ẹgbégụaḅọ
̣
ẹgbégụaye
̣
ẹgbẹ
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.
a.
hi
hi
hi
fp
i
wt
f
da
fg
mt
cr
dr
tr
tr
shout of exclamation
stagger; totter
stagger(ing); totter(ing)
staggeringly
small woven mat for tying sacrificial objects
on to amatẹmẹsuo after idú festival
priesthood of ẹfẹké ̣ and the ceremonial butler
in idú festival
unreasonable
unreasonably
ornamented native bracelet of raffia work
worn by special female juju
fan for fire
plate in general
plateful; panful
corrugated iron sheets
house made of corrugated iron sheets
china; porcelain; breakables
pan plates; tin wares
scale (of fish or in skin disease)
air; atmosphere; breeze
airless; breezeless; still
airy; breezy
cockroach
wind
hamlet
straggly; sporadic
stragglingly; sporadically
spare
sparingly
fish sp.; [burro spp.?]; grunt species
guinea-fowl
floodwater
chamber in a fish trap
bubble from deep
general feebleness after some great fear
cowpea [?]
seat supported at either end by forked sticks;
section of sẹkịapụ club (= agba); stick laid
across latrine house for squatting
same as ẹgụé ̣
same as ẹgụẹịn
sacrifice; offering
anklet worn by women in olden days
make sacrifice; offer
priest that offers sacrifice or offering
victim for an offering
deserving; worthy; appropriate; suitable;
proper; competent; fit; right; just; good
81
same as ẹfẹrụ1
[Plectorhynchus
spp. &
Parapristyipoma
spp.?] family
Haemulidae
cf. áfụláfụ
Vigna unguiculata
(Linn.) Walp. [?]
ẹgbẹ
v.t.
ẹgbẹ
v.aux
.
ẹgbẹgha
ẹgbẹgbẹrịḅá
ẹgbẹịn
ẹgbẹịnḅịḅịpẹịgha
a.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
tp
f
f
enough for
fit; befit; suit; be right for; be of right
measure, shape and size (esp. of dress);
deserve
ought; expressing duty, rightness,
shortcoming, advisability, or strong
probability: e.g.
unworthy; unsuitable; unfit; incompetent
coils on the stem of raffia palm
spotted eagle-ray
white-spotted guitarfish
ẹgbẹịn-odu tụá
ẹgbẹíntịn
̣
ẹgbẹíntekeleḅa
̣
a.p.
n.
n.m.
a
b
spotted; pied
king post (of roof)
pied kingfisher
ẹgbẹnịgbẹnịḅá
n.
ẹgụrẹ
ẹgụrụḅa
n.
n.m.
bp
f
cramp; contraction of muscles from sudden
chill, strain, etc.
beard
small fry of tilapiine fish
ẹhéẹn
̣
excl.
éị̣
excl.
ẹkẹ
n.
t
ẹkélị,
̣
ẹkélụ
̣
ẹkẹré ̣
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
bs
bs
fg
ẹkẹrẹkwéẹkwé
ẹ̣
̣
n.m.
b
ékẹré
ngẹ
̣
̣
ẹkẹtẹ
ẹkị
n.
n.
v.t.
bm
ẹkị
ẹkpẹkíkpẹkị
̣
ẹkpẹrú ̣kpẹrụ
n.
n.
n.m.
t
f
exclamation used to attract warning or
attention
exclamation used to express warning or
contempt
white mangrove; oil obtained from it used in
curing scabies or crawcraw
small basket
small basket
fishing trap used by women for crayfish; crabpot
double-spurred francolin = bush-fowl;
continuous rain (praise-name)
sore, ulcer
accept; take; get:
acceptance
tree sp. with light timber;
small fry of mullet
82
ị nimi ẹgbẹ ‘you
ought to know’
Aetobatus narinari
Rhinobatos
albomaculatos cf.
ḅịḅịpẹịghá
Ceryle rudis (cf.
ḍụẹị-ọkịanlalá;
ḍụẹị-ọkịn-alala;
ọkịn-álala)
family Cichlidae.
cf. okoróḅa
Avicenna nitida
Francolinus
bicalcaratus; but is
this a local bird?
Perhaps Latham’s
forest francolin,
Francolinus
lathami
fịrí ghọ
ẹkị
̣
employ; kụmọ ghó ̣
numo ékị
̣ ‘take up
song following
leader’;
=ekpékpe
family Mugilidae.
cf. [abaraká,
ó ̣zọló ̣lị2?] ịdẹgé,̣
ịyagụ, ó ̣zọló ̣lị
ẹkpẹtẹ
n.
mi
ẹkpẹtẹkpé ̣
ẹkụẹ
ẹkụẹ
ẹkụẹkụẹḅá
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
sh
ẹkụétẹ
̣
n.
ẹkụrụ
n.m.
ẹkú ̣rụụ
ẹkú ̣rụụ
ẹkú ̣rụụmọ
ẹkwẹ
ẹkwẹkwẹḅá
ẹkwétẹ
̣
ẹlẹ1
ẹlẹ1
ẹlẹmó1̣
ẹlẹmó2̣
ẹlẹ2
ẹlẹ2
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
ẹlẹmó3̣
ẹlẹmó4̣
ḍọgí ẹ̣ lẹ
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
ẹlẹgẹlé ̣
ẹlẹgẹlédudu
̣
n.m.
n.m.
ẹlẹgẹlépịna
̣
ẹlẹgẹlésiko
̣
mindi-élẹgẹlẹ
̣
ẹlẹlé ̣
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
ẹlẹlẹmó ̣
ẹlẹlẹ
ẹlụ
ẹlụ
ẹlụé ̣
ẹlụétugu
̣
ẹmbị
adv.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
ẹmbịmọ
adv.
bs
f
i
f
dc
dc
pluriarc, musical instrument with bowed
sticks attached to a rectangular soundbox.
Extinct
knife
misfire (of gun); spew
misfiring (of gun); spew
shrub, the leaves of which are used for
wrapping foodstuffs for sale and for building
in some areas
hammock of woven ropes used for palm fruit
work
small woven basket work for storing pepper,
etc.
shame; shyness
be ashamed; shy
shamefully
same as ẹkụẹ
same as ẹkụẹkụẹḅá
same as ẹkụétẹ
̣
thirst; desire for drink
thirst; be thirsty
thirstily
cause thirst
gasp; pant; throb
gasp for breath with open mouth (as dog or in
exhaustion after strenuous work); pant
gaspingly
cause to gasp
yearn for or after something to do; look for
violently
catfish sp. found only in ponds
winged moth which appears in swarms after
some heavy rains
very dull light complexion
running needle stitch
big catfish found in streams
graze; touch lightly in passing:
thinly (of peeling); lightly (in brushing past)
wooden bailer
sẹkịapụ dance
dance such step
seat, same as ẹgụẹíṇ
promises of ẹlụé ̣
like; similar; resembling something; looking
like; having the appearance of; of the kind just
seen or referred to; of the class that one
exemplifies: e.g.
in the manner of; to the same degree as; like;
as: e.g.
83
Marantochloa
purpurea
(Maranthaceae)
Clarias sp.
cf. ẹlẹlé ̣ ḅọgọ
‘brush past’
ẹrị kẹ ẹmbịḅọ
‘somebody that
looks like you’ or
‘somebody of your
class’
indí rẹ ẹmbịmọ oki
‘swim like a fish’;
ịrụakụra ḅio rẹ
ẹmbịmó ̣ otíta koro
‘dew falls to the
same degree as in
the heart of the dry
season’
ẹmbú ̣ẹẹ
ẹmérẹmé
̣
̣
ẹndụ
a.
n.
n.
ẹndụ-éndụ
̣
a.
énẹmụ
̣
n.
ẹngẹ
ẹngẹlụgụ
ẹngẹtịnọ
n.
n.
n.
fr
fr
t
ẹngẹtịnó ̣n.
n.
t
abadị-éngẹ
̣
ẹngẹlé ̣
ẹngú ̣lẹẹ
ẹngú ̣lẹẹmọ
ẹngú ̣rụụ
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
n.m.
n.
énwẹn
̣
ẹnwẹn
i
ẹpẹlí, ̣ ẹpẹlú ̣
ẹpẹpẹ
ẹpérẹ
̣
ẹpérẹ
̣
ẹpẹrụ
ẹpẹrụ
ẹpẹrụmó ̣
ẹpérụụ
̣
ẹpésị̣
n.
v.p.
v.p.
adv.
n.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
ad v.
a.
n.m.
sn
ẹpésị-ikoso
̣
ẹpétẹ
̣
n.
n.m.
sn
f
ẹpụ
ẹrẹgịérẹgị
̣
n.
v.i.
ẹnwẹnpọgọ
pọgọ énwẹn
̣
pọgọ énwẹnmọ
̣
ẹnwẹnmọ
ẹnwénrẹẹn
̣
ẹnwénrẹẹn
̣
ẹnwénrẹẹn
̣
ẹnwénrẹẹnmọ
̣
ẹpẹḅụ
ẹpẹḅụḅọ
almost smiling
thin film on top of water; cobwebs in a house
internode (esp. on sugar-cane or allied cane
stems)
full of rings (said of neck with many folds of
flesh)
sort of antichrist prevalent in N embe area in
the early part of the twentieth century who
claimed great prophetic powers
fruits of a spice tree
mantled fruits of oil palm
Ethiopian pepper; tree that bears the fruits
ẹngẹ
type of above with durable wood and good
spice
see under abadí ̣
clean up bush-cane rope for basketwork, etc.
very small; tiny
in a very small way
same as ẹkú ̣rụụ
(also ó ̣mẹmụ)
Xylopia aethiopica
(Annonaceae)
leech; bloodworm
slight huskiness of voice, usually natural; veil;
partial loss of voice
huskiness; veiled voice
be affected with huskiness or veiled voice
cause to have veiled voice
huskily
shame; shyness
be shy; be ashamed
shamefaced; bashful; shy
shamefully; with shame
hamlet, village
villager
small corner; nook
small creek
belch; burp
belch; burp
talk noisily and continuously; splutter; sputter
sputter; noisy and quick talk
sputteringly
very small; tiny
small snails, usually white and flat, believed
to be poisonous to pigs
pale-coloured type of ikoso
small specimen of ọfọụ, a freshwater fish
native dagger-like razor blade
be near or at hand (especially of fall of rain or
festival, etc.)
84
Citharinus latus. cf.
ọfọụ
ẹrémọ
̣
n.
ẹrémọ
̣
v.i.
&
v.t.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
&
conj.
ẹrémọḅara
̣
ẹrérẹ
̣
ẹrẹsínẹ
̣
érị
̣
pron.
ẹrị1
ẹrị2
pron.
v.t.
ẹrịḅara
ẹrịḅara ẹrịḅara
érịé
̣ rị
̣
ẹríya
̣
adv.
adv.p
.
v.i.
v.t.
ḍọgí ẹ̣ rị
ḍọgí-ẹrịye
̣
s`ụọ ẹrị
ẹrú ̣
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
ẹrụ-érụ
̣
ẹrụẹ
adv.
a.
ẹrụẹ-ẹrụẹ
v.i.
ẹrụẹ-ẹrụẹ
ẹrụémọ
̣
ẹrụwẹ
ẹsé ̣
n.
adv.
a.
a.
ẹsé ̣
ẹsé ̣
ẹsẹrị
n.
v.i.
n.
ẹsịésị̣ (also esiési)
ẹsú ̣ẹ
ẹsụ
ẹsụyaị
ẹsụḅụ
ẹsú ̣wẹ
ẹtẹmétẹmẹ
̣
ẹtẹmétẹmẹwarị
̣
étẹrẹ
̣
éụ̣
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.pl.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
vain-glorious statement; vaunt; boast; brag;
threat; declaration of intention to punish or
hurt
make vain-glorious statement; vaunt; boast;
brag; threaten; announce one’s intention to
punish or hurt
threateningly
burn underneath
therefore; because of; for the reason that;
inasmuch as; since. It translates the English
nouns sake, meaning out of consideration for;
in the interest of; owing to
I (answering questions and in comparisons):
e.g.
you; thou
see; descry; catch sight of; experience; find;
come across
as seen (by one)
in any way as seen; anyhow; mercilessly
to
i
i
he
become threadbare
see a person in distress, or after long absence;
see each other; interview (in business); see
one with bad intent: cf.
discover; detect; find out
discovery; thing found out; find
agree with; concur with
line; row; tier (especially one of several
placed one above another)
in lines or rows; in flakes or thin layers
slow; not quick; tardy; sluggish; without
struggle
move slow; reduce speed; wish (someone)
safe journey
slow movement or speed
slowly; tardily; unstrugglingly
same as preceding
efficacious; producing desired effect (esp. of
medicine)
efficaciousness; efficacy
be efficacious
woven screen for door or window (usually
decorated and with fine small sticks)
reduce or lessen in severity (of epidemic)
same as ẹsú ̣wẹ
vomit; disgorge; spew; cast up the gorge
vomit; vomited matter
dagger for cutting bunches of oil palm
hoe in general
spider
cobweb; spider’s network
mat, finer than ite
chill; cold sensation; feverish shivering;
chillness
85
tú ̣ḅẹ? érị
̣ ‘who? I’;
orí na érị
̣ na ‘he
and I’
(also ẹrí)̣
wa ẹríyaggha
ifie
̣
‘what a long time
since we met!’
pl. ḍọgí-ẹrịaye
̣
éụ̣
éụ̣
éụmọ
̣
ẹwẹí1̣
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
ẹwẹí2̣
ẹwẹí2̣
n.
v.i.
&
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ẹwẹímọ
̣
ẹwẹlí, ̣ ẹwẹlú ̣
ẹwụ
ẹwụtụkpa
kụrọ-éwụ
̣
sei-éwụ
̣
mt
bp
chill; chilly; rather cold to feel
become cold; feel sudden cold
in cold manner
small drum accompaniment in certain kinds of
drumming
fear; fright
fear; be afraid
alarm; appal; frighten
beard of man
air; steam
pressure lamp
strong current of air
bad current of air; draught
F.
fá
v.i.
fá
n.
fá
v.i.
fá
v.a.
C. used in combination with other verbs to
mean ‘out’; ‘away from’, ‘completely’: e.g.
fá
b.t.
D. less; minus; deducting: e.g. sọnọ anoín fá
kụra
E. no; not any; e.g.
fá
fá
A. be absent; be not present; be non-existent;
be at a loss; be lost; cease; come to an end;
finish; waste; be spent, consumed
absence; being away from a place; nonexistence, or want of; loss; person, thing,
amount, lost; the finish; finis; the end
B. not (be) in (a place); e.g.
F. -fá suf. (like English ‘-less’) used in
forming adjectives with sense ‘devoid of’; e.g.
faiin
v.i.
fakaráa
v.i.
fakaráa
n.
fakaráamọ
fakaráafakaráa
adv.
a.
loose-fitting (of dress, sail); billowy; hanging
loose
rustle; make sound as of dry leaves blown or
brushed aside
rustle; sound of dry leaves blown or brushed
aside
rustlingly
very dry; rustling; very rough to touch
86
ama ghọ fá not at
home’; warí ghọ
fá
̣
‘not in (the house)’
bíin fá ‘die out (of
fire)’; dọgí fá
̣ ‘burn
out’; fí fá
̣ (of
family, class,
species) ‘die out;
become extinct’; seí
fá ‘be completely
rotten’ sụọ fá ‘sink
away; disappear;
vanish; be lost’;
‘five days short of a
year’
ḅẹrẹ fá ‘no case’
kunemó ̣ fá ‘no
end’
ḅaráfá ‘handless’;
kunefá ‘endless’
tịḅịfá ‘headless’
(cf. following
words, and
fárafára, etc.)
(cf.
férukáaférukáa)
fakaráafakaráa
fákurúu
v.i.
v.i.
fákurúumọ
fakurúu
adv.
n.
fakurúufakurúu
fakụrú ̣ụ
v.i.
v.i.
fakụrú ̣ụ
fakụrú ̣ụmọ
fakụrú ̣ụfakụrú ̣ụ
faláị
faláị
faláịmọ
faláịfaláị
fálúu
fálúumọ
falúufalúu
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
falúufalúumọ
famó ̣
adv.
v.t.
ḅará famọ
ifié famọ
famọ
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
famú ̣
famú ̣
famụ-íjagba
̣
fandụ
fanga
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
fanga
a.
fángala
fángala
fangalá
a.
n.
v.t.
fangalámọ
fangalamó ̣
fárafára
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
fárafára
n.
make a rustle, owing to dryness or roughness
rustle; make sound as of heavy object moving
amongst dry leaves
rustlingly
rustle; sound of heavy dresses making a
froufrou
make a heavy rustle or froufrou
rustle slightly
slight rustle
rustlingly
make light rustle
splash; jump out of water
splashing sound or action
with a splash
splatter; make continuous splashing sound
protrude; project; stick out
protrudingly
robust; not slender or weakly (of person’s or
animal’s body)
robustly
A. lose; cause to miss; let slip; waste; spend;
expend to no purpose; abolish; do away with
(customs or institutions)
waste or expend (money, food, drink, etc.)
waste, spend (time, breath, etc.)
B. up (expressing complete or effectual
result): e.g.
b
beat; flog; punish; strike; lam; hit; thrash
beating; flogging; chastisement
punishment
bird sp. (unidentified) resembling bat
coil; twist (rope); use black thread to twist
hair spirally; cf.
spirally twisted, as of climbing plants and
horns of antelope
not straight; distorted; skew; twisted; wry
wryness
garrotte; scrag; strangle; strangulate; kill by
twisting the windpipe (in birds); wrench;
wrest; wring; twist (hand, leg, etc.)
obliquely
cause to twist, deflect, distort or pervert
rustle; make sound as of object moving
amongst dry leaves
rustling sound
87
(cf. preceding and
following words)
(cf. fakaráa,
fakụrú ̣ụ, fukurúu)
(cf. preceding and
following words)
fị famó ̣ ‘consume;
eat up; mịé ̣ famó ̣
‘accomplish, bring
to an end; execute;
perform; fulfil;
finish; do
completely’; ḅou
famó ̣ ‘drink up’
tịḅị fanga ‘plait
hair’; ḍigi fanga
‘coil a rope’
(cf. fakaráa, and
following words)
fárafáramọ
farakáa
farakáafarakáa
adv.
a.
v.i.
rustlingly
(of clothes) ruffled
(cf. preceding and following words, and
fakaráa) rustle; froufrou
rustlingly
rustle; froufrou
rustle;
rustlingly
(cf. preceding words) rustle; froufrou
rustlingly
beat (drums); drum
drummer, player (of instrument): e.g.
farakáafarakáamọ
farákafaráka
fararáa
fararáamọ
fararáafararáa
fararáafararáamọ
farị1
farịḅọ
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
mt
farịyaị
n.pl.
mi
farị2
farịye
aka farị
akafarị
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
igbogífarịye
farị3
n.
v.t.
drums; musical instruments. N ormally refers
to collectively to sẹkị-apụ instruments
file, grind (tools); strop; whet
file; strop
chatter (teeth); gnash; grind
gnashing; chattering or rattling sound (of
teeth)
file
blandish; flatter; coax cf.
fárukúu
a.
standing out (of clothes)
fárukúu
fárukúumọ
fárúu
fáru!umọ
fée
fée
féemọ
féefée
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
féefée
féeféemọ
fékeféke
n.
adv.
v.i.
distend; dilate; swell out (of clothes, sail, etc.)
in a dilated state
distend (of sail); swell out
in a distended state
fleet; quick; rapid; swift
glide away; pass rapidly, move swiftly; fly
fleetly; fleetingly; quickly; rapidly; swiftly
stagger; totter; waver, (of ship) yaw; fail to
hold a straight course; go unsteadily
tottering movement
staggeringly; totteringly; waveringly
stagger; totter; waver
fékefékemọ
féketée, feketée
féketée
féketéemọ
félelée
féleléemọ
féleléefélelée
féleléeféleléemọ
fenéin
fenéin
fenéinmọ
fénenée
fénenée
fénenéemọ
fenfen
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
staggeringly; waveringly
come up lightly or without resistance
light; not heavy
lightly; without resistance
be light (in weight)
lightly
light (in weight)
lightly
brisk; active
jump briskly
briskly; actively
light and buoyant
become light and buoyant
light and buoyantly
light-complexioned and spotless; highly
polished
88
same as fárafára
ọkụmá farịḅọ
drummer
kụmọ farị ‘coax a
person’
(cf. fúrukúu and
fárúu)
(cf. preceding)
(cf. following word)
(cf. preceding
word)
(same as fékẹté
ẹ)
̣
̣
(same as fẹnéịn)
̣
(same as fénẹné
ẹ)
̣
̣
fenfénmọ
feni
ferenferen
ferenferénmọ
férukáa
adv.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
férukáamọ
férukáaférukáa
adv.
v.i.
férukáaférukáamọ
fẹ
ḅịḅịfẹ
adv.
v.t.
n.
ḅịḅị fẹ
fẹfẹrú ̣ụ
v.p.
v.i.
fẹfẹrú ̣ụ
fẹfẹrú ̣ụmọ
fẹfẹrú ̣ụfẹfẹrú ̣ụ
fẹfẹrú ̣ụfẹfẹrú ̣ụmọ
fékẹté
ẹ̣
̣
fẹnfẹn
fẹnfẹn
fẹnfénmọ
̣
fẹngẹrẹ
fẹngẹrémọ
̣
féngụ
̣
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& a.
v.i.
& a.
v.i.
& a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
féngụmọ
̣
fẹngụ1
adv.
v.t.
fẹngụ1
fẹngụmó ̣
fẹngụmọ1
fẹngú ̣ye
tọrú ̣ fẹngụ
tọrú ̣fẹngụ
fẹngụ2
fẹngụ2
ẹféngụye
̣
odúfẹngụye
yefẹngụye
fẹngụ3
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
fẹnéịn
̣
fénẹné
ẹ̣
̣
spotlessly
bird
bald; bare of hair
baldly
with short stiff scales; (of clothes) stiff (like
tarpaulin);
stiffly
rustle
rustlingly
buy; purchase
old custom whereby a nominal fee is paid
before an intended wife or the mother-in-law
speaks to, or eats in, the husband’s or son-inlaw’s house. In traditional circles, it is the
payment of specified gifts by a lesser deity to
a higher deity before the former is allowed
freedom of speech and play
perform such custom
give forth slight sound as of some small
creature in motion; scuff; shuffle; move with
scraping, sliding or dragging motion
shuffling movement
shufflingly
same as preceding
shufflingly
same as féketée
same as fénéin
same as fénenée
he
he
he
cleanly; habitually clean
appear clean
cleanly; in a clean way
hover; loiter about
loiteringly; in a hovering manner
swing; sway; move to and fro; vacillate;
oscillate; waver; swoon; reel
vacillatingly; etc.
swing; sway; cause to swing or sway (usually
in circles)
swinging; swaying
hurling; flinging
sling; fling; hurl
sling (for throwing)
to be dizzy
dizziness; vertigo
fanning; winnowing
fan; winnow away chaff
fan for fire
fan for the body
fanning-instrument; fanner; winnower
early part of rainy season, May to August.
89
(cf. fararáa,
fakaráa, etc.)
fẹngụ4
v.t.
tr
ḍụẹịfẹngụ
fẹngú ̣mọ
t
fẹngú ̣mọ
fẹngụmó2̣
fẹngụmó ̣
fẹngú ̣wei
fẹrẹnfẹréṇ 1
1
fẹrẹnfẹrénmọ
̣
2
fẹrẹnfẹréṇ
fẹrẹnfẹrénmọ
̣
férẹré
ẹ̣
̣
férẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
férụ
̣
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
yọmịẹfẹrụmó ̣ye
n.
fẹrú ̣ụ
fẹrú ̣ụmọ
fẹrú ̣ụfẹrú ̣ụ
fẹrú ̣ụfẹrú ̣ụmọ
fiáan
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
fiáan
fiáanmọ
fiáanfiáan
fiáanfiáanmọ
fíḅufíḅu
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
fíḅufíḅu
fíḅufíḅumọ
fie
fieḅịḅị
n.
adv.
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
fieye
ḅịḅị fie
ḅịḅị fié ḍị
n.
v.p.
v.p.
ḅịḅị fié ḍịgha
v.p.
ḅịḅị fiegha
ye ékị
̣ fiémọ
ye fie
ye kọrí f̣ ie
fieḅịḅị
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
ms
The whole is divided into kalá fẹngụ, May &
June; opú fẹngụ, July & August
transfer (dead) by magical powers from a first
burial place to a second burial place
such transference for a second burial
blow in (as rain)
such blowing in
beckon
beckoning gesture
masquerade type
clean; unsoiled
cleanly
dry; without moisture; bald
drily; baldly
scarcely gone or passed
only just, scarcely
resolve or pass away without suppuration (of
inflammation or tumour)
absorbent (med.); agent that causes the drying
up of a tumour, etc.
scuff; shuffle
shufflingly
same as preceding
shufflingly
snort; make explosive noise due to sudden
forcing of breath through nose, after holding
breath for some time (naturally or after
diving)
snorting sound
with a snort
snort continuously after running, etc.
with a continuous snort
anxious; earnestly desirous (to do, or for a
thing)
anxiety; solicitous desire
anxiously
speak (with or to person); use specified
language in speaking: cf.
A. affair, dispute; lawsuit; matter; word; talk;
language
same as preceding
use language; utter or say word
have power of speech (of child); be able to
talk
not have the power of speech; not be able to
talk (of child); (of a dumb person) dumb
be silent
speak something ill against
speak something; discuss matter (with)
speak of, about, something or matter
B. talk or make sound (as animal, bird, wind,
90
(in ḍụẹị fẹngụ)
(cf. fitiáan)
ḅékeḅịḅị fie ‘speak
English’
fiemọ
v.t.
fiemó ̣
adv.
fiefá
fílilúu
v.i.
v.i.
fílilúu
n.
fílipúu
fílipúu
fílipúumọ
fílipúufílipúu
fín1
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
v.i.
fín1
fin-árụ
fin-égberi
finmó ̣
fín2
fín2
finyá
finyámọ
finyáfinyá
fịnyá
fịnyámọ
fínye
fíndi
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
fíndi
fíndimọ
findí
findimó ̣
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
fío
fiofio
fiofiómọ
fiónkofiónko
fiónkofiónko
fiónkofiónkomọ
fioríi
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
&
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
fioríimọ
fiórifióri
fioróo
fioróomọ
fírigíi
fírigíi
fírigíimọ
drum, etc.)
cause to sound (drum), cause to start a row or
debate
loudly; resonantly
fight; contend against or with
feel paining and moving sensation in tissue of
body
such paining and moving sensation in tissue
of body
wriggle (as maggot)
wriggling movement
with a wriggle
same as preceding
mt
fly (as bird, etc.); move through air (as
aeroplane)
flying
aeroplane; helicopter; aircraft; airship; etc.
flying news
let fly; cause to fly
evaporate; disappear
evaporation
snort loudly
with a loud snort
snort continuously
snort lightly
with a light snort
fleck in the eye which disappears after healing
broad; wide; not narrow; spacious; extensive;
ample
breadth; broadness; width
broadly; widely; extensively
broaden; widen; open; unlock; unfold; unveil
broaden; widen; expand; spread; stretch out;
enlarge
current of water
white; sleek
whitely; sleekly
pant; gasp; throb violently; utter gaspingly
throbbing; panting
gaspingly
sip or drink soup in sharp copious draughts
in sharp copious draughts
same as above, but continuously
same as fioríi
same as fioríimọ
rough (of skin); not smooth or polished
develop rough skin
in a dry and rough state
91
cf. farị fiemó ̣ ‘beat
(drum) loudly’
(same as fílịpú
̣
̣ụ)
(cf. following
words)
fị2
v.i.
fịmó ̣
fíạ 1
v.t.
v.t.
fíạ 1
a.
fíạ 1
v.i.
fíagha
̣
v.t.
fíagha
̣
a.
fíagha
̣
fíaghaḅara
̣
fíaghaḅọ
̣
ḅụ na fíạ
n.
adv.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
ḅụnafíạ
n.
odú na fíạ
odúnafíạ
fíạ 2
v.p.
n.
v.i.
fíaye
̣
fíaa
̣
n.
excl.
fịafịa
fịafịámọ
fịaí ̣
fịaífịaị
̣
fịaífịḅọgó
̣
̣
fịaífịḅọgó
̣
̣
fịaífịḅọgọḅọ
̣
fịaí-ifie
̣
fịḅú ̣
fịḅú ̣
fígbọọ
̣
fígbọọ
̣
a.
adv.
n.
a.
a.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
fígbọọmọ
̣
fịitoru
adv.
n.
fíịn
̣
fíịn
̣
fíịnfí
̣ ịn
̣
fíịnfí
̣ ịn
̣
fíịnfí
̣ ịnmọ
̣
fịkí ̣
fịkịfịkí ̣
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
fester (of wound, boil, etc.),; rankle;
suppurate; become malignant
cause to fester
become; befit; suit; be fitted for; look well on;
be right for; be convenient for; be incumbent
on; match; be equal in quality, colour, etc.:
e.g.
fit; well adapted or suited; becoming; proper;
right; qualified; competent; worthy; suitable;
deserving: e.g.
agree; become or be in harmony with; suit the
constitution of; e.g.:
not agree or be in harmony with; not befit or
become
unworthy; unbecoming; unsuitable; not
befitting; unseemly
enmity; lasting hate or hatred; disagreement
unworthily, unsuitably
enemy; opponent; adversary; antagonist
be content; be satisfied (with something);
accustom or habituate (to thing)
content; contentedness; contentment;
satisfaction
same as ḅụ na fíạ
contentment
use some word as reciprocal nickname
between friends
reciprocal nickname between friends
expressing that God should forbit that such
thing should happen or occur
clean; free from dirt; unsoiled
cleanly
solid food; meal; eatables
mealy; containing much meal
gluttonous
gluttony; excessive eating
glutton; gormandizer
meal-time; usual time of eating
low water (of ebb tide)
be favourable for fishing (of low tide)
stagnant; hesitant; reluctant
hesitate; be reluctant; stagnate; have no
current
stagnantly; reluctantly; hesitatingly
bread;
make the slightest move, noise, etc.
very slight move, noise, etc.
make low sound; mutter
mutter; murmur; (oracle)
murmurously
saw; cut with saw
saw; implement with teeth for sawing
92
ḅụtụaweíḅei ị na
fíạ ‘the garment
suits you’
ị mịé ̣ na fíạ ye
‘worthy thing for
you to do’
ịní furo
na fíạ ‘it
̣
suits my stomach’
(in ye ékị
̣
̣ fía)
(lit. "eating
powder")
fílịpú
̣
̣ụ
fílọtó
̣ ̣ọ
fílọtó
̣ ̣ọmọ
fína
̣ 1
fína
̣ 2
fínamọ
̣
fịna
fịnámọ
fịndị
fịndị
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
same as fílipúu
short
in a short manner
consistency of pounded food
bind; tie; fasten
in bonds or cords
bind; fasten; tie; swathe
attach, fasten, lash (on, to)
remain; be left over
additional; extra; excessive; e.g.
fịndịmó ̣
adv.
fịndịyaị
fịndịye
fịndịyọ
fíngịfí
ngị
̣
̣
fíngịfí
ngị
̣
̣
fíngịfí
ngịmọ
̣
̣
fíngịfí
ngịye
̣
̣
fịní ̣
fịnị-áfun
fịníḅẹlẹụ
̣
suófịnị
fịọlú ̣ụ
n.pl.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
n.pl.
n.
n.
a.
over; in excess; in addition; excessively;
besides; more; apart
what remains over; surplus material
thing in excess of
remainder; surplus; something in excess of
flippant; frivolous; trifling
trifle; toy with
flippantly; frivolously
trifle; thing of slight importance
fire; fuel; wood
pieces of fire-wood left off after splitting
flame of fire
thunder
very small (of hole)
fịọlú ̣ụmọ
fíọn
̣
fíọn
̣
fíọnmọ
̣
fíọnfí
̣ ọn
̣
fịpú ̣ụ
fịpú ̣ụ
fịpú ̣ụmọ
fịrí ̣
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
fịrímọ
̣
v.i.
fịrịmó ̣
fịrí m
̣ ọndị
mọndịfịrị
v.t.
v.p.
n.
fịsaní ̣
n.
fịtáa, fịtá
v.i.
cr
in a very small way (of hole)
very small (of holes)
develop a small hole
with a small hole
sieve-like; perforated
slip; fall accidentally from grip
slip; act of slipping accidentally from grip
with a slip
business; enterprise; job; labour; task; work;
duty; function
send for (telling to come or ordering as to
purchase)
send; order; mandate; command; bid go
do work; labour; toil; be engaged in work
job; piece of work done for hire or profit;
employment; labour; task; toil; act; thing
done; deed
alligator pepper plant and fruit
overflow; overbrim: e.g.
93
fịndị igbogi ‘extra
money’
(cf. following
words)
Aframomum
melegueta; A.
danielii (Hook. f.)
K.Schum.
pánịḅei fịtáatẹ ‘the
pan has overbrimmed’; be full to
the brim, e.g.
mindímị bein
fịtátẹ ‘the water is
full to the brim’
fịtáamọ
adv.
full to the brim; e.g.
fịtịfịtí ̣
fịtịfịtímọ
̣
1
fíụụ
̣
fíụụ
̣ 1
1
fíụụmọ
̣
2
fíụụ
̣
2
fíụụmọ
̣
fíya
̣ 1
fíya
̣ 2
fịyaí ̣
fó1
fó1
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
fó2
fó2
fó3
v.t.
n.
v.t.
ft
fó3
fofó
n.
n.
ft
mt
fóforóo
fofórofofóro
fofórofofóro
fofórofofóromọ
foforófoforomọ
foin
foin
foin
fó ̣ịfịweí
foinmó1̣
foinmó2̣
v.i.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
foinmó3̣
fókíi
fókíimọ
fóko
fóko
fokofokó
fokofokó
fokofokómọ
fólíi
fólíi
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
dirty; nasty
nastily
sharp (of sting; pinch, bite, pain, burn etc.)
sting, pinch, bite, burn, sharply
sharply
completely black (colour)
completely black
same as fíạ
beat one another in a bet, wager or game
same as fịaí ̣
resuscitate (fainting person)
such resuscitation or restoration to
consciousness or life
bail out capsizing canoe
such bailing out
use leaves to dam the sides of creek from
where the screens stop
such damming with leaves
last of ebb before the flow; slack-water, i.e.
about turn of low (ebb) tide
decay; rot
slack; not tight; loose; relaxed
slacken; loosen
loosely; slackly
make loose or slack
float; rest on surface of liquid
buoyancy; floating power
buoyant; apt to float
the heart
buoyantly
get or set afloat (of tide floating a stranded
boat); float down log in a river, or kernels in
salt or muddy water
float on fishing-net
lighten; feel relief; grow lighter
in light manner
tie cloth loosely round loins in special manner
fólíimọ
folíifolíi
adv.
v.i.
folói
folói
a.
v.i.
co
co
such style of tying cloth
frothy; foamy; lathery
foam; froth; lather
frothily
protrusive; obtrusive
protrude; obtrude; project; thrust forth; stick
out
obtrusively
bob; move up and down; rebound (like cork in
water)
awkward (of sudden movement)
protrude; obtrude; project; stick out
94
mindímị tụá
fịtáamọ ‘put the
water to the brim’
folóimọ
folóifolói
fóngo
adv.
a.
v.i.
fóngo
a.
fóngomọ
fóngolo
fóngolo-ẹfẹrụma
fóngolomindi
fóngolomọ
fongolo
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
adv.
v.t.
fongolomó ̣
fóo
v.t.
a.
fóo
fóo
fóomọ
fóon
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
fóonmọ
fóonfóon
fóonfóon
fóonfóonmọ
fopúu
fopúu
fopúumọ
fórifóri
fórifóri
fórifórimọ
fóro
foró
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
id.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
forótẹ
fórokóo
fórokóo
fórokóo
fórokóomọ
forónforon
forónforon
forónforonmọ
fótíi
fótíi
fótíimọ
fótiifotii
fọfó ̣
fọfó ̣
ḅịḅịfọfọ
fọí1̣
fọí1̣
fọí2̣
fó ̣kọ
a.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
awkwardly (of a jump)
protuberant or protrusive (of hip bones)
become empty; (of house, boat) devoid of
furniture, inmates, load, provision, etc.
empty; containing nothing; (colloquial)
hungry
emptily
eddy; swirl; whirl round
eddy; whirlwind
eddy; whirlpool
in a circular way
encircle; encompass; surround; form a circle
round
whirl; swirl; cause to make a circle
pungent; piquant; biting; caustic; pricking (to
skin, taste, etc.)
be pungent or piquant
piquancy; pungency
pungently; piquantly
(of holes, nostril) open and with straight sides
enabling one to see far down or in
agape
admitting of light; perforated
have many holes
in a perforated state
sound (as) of cork being drawn out
make such sound
with a cloop
(of skin) dry and scurfy
scurfiness
in a scurfy state
be riddled; be eaten up
riddle; cause to deteriorate; eat up fleshy
tissues and leave only integuments; decline in
wealth or power
riddled
containing no fleshy tissues; foamy; frothy
foam; froth; spume
frothiness, foaminess
frothily
admitting of light
admit plenty of light
admitting light
protrusive, obtrusive
project; stick out
obtrusively
move up and down; bob; rebound
kiss; suck finger or bone
kiss; such sucking
kiss; caress given with lips
bake; roast; toast; braise
baking, roasting, etc.
annoy; irritate; hurt
become erased or rubbed
95
(cf. fọpú ̣ụ)
(cf. fó ̣rọkó ̣ọ)
fọkó ̣
v.t.
fọkó ̣mọ
fọkọfọkọ
fọkọfọkó ̣mó ̣
fó ̣ọ
fó ̣ọ
fó ̣ọ
fó ̣ọmọ
fó ̣ọn
fó ̣ọnmọ
fọpú ̣ụ
fọpú ̣ụ
fọpú ̣ụmọ
fọró ̣kọ
fó ̣rọkó ̣ọ
fó ̣rọkó ̣ọ
fó ̣rọkó ̣ọ
fó ̣tịfó ̣tị
fó ̣tịfó ̣tịmọ
fọụ1
fọu-ene
fọụ2
fọụmó ̣
ḅịḅịfọụghá
fọụn
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
adv.
n.m.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
fọú ̣nkụatụrụ
ḅụrọfọụn
teínfọụn
fuá
fúḅo
fúḅomọ
fúfu
fugu1
fugu1
n.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.
ịmgbẹsé ̣ fugu
imgbeséfugu
nụnụ fugu
v.p.
n.
v.p.
nụnụfugu
fugu2
n.
v.i.
fua-ára
fuáḅọ
fua-ówei
fúa
fúḅo
k
chafe; rub hard; erase; scour; scrub; burnish;
furbish
cause to rub or rub self against
filthy
filthily
pungent; piquant; caustic
be pungent or piquant
piquancy; pungency
pungently; piquantly
lonesome; lonely; not lively
lonesomely
cloop, clooping sound
cloop; make such sound
with a cloop
singlet; garment worn under shirt
frothy, foamy
foam, froth, spume
frothiness
gorge; feed greedily
with greedy feeding
market; mart; market-place
market day
calm; quiet; tranquil
calmly; quietly
fond of talking; talkative
ash; powdery residue left after burning of
something; (loosely used for) gun-powder
keg of gun-powder
wood-ash
gun-powder
father- or mother-in-law
k
k
mother-in-law
father- or mother-in-law
k
father-in-law
champion (in game of ikosó)
snuggle; shift or lie close up for warmth; take
to lie close and snug; cuddle
bp
snuggle; cuddle; embrace; hug; fondle
draw close to self (as child)
lung
strike or nudge with buttock
manoeuvre in wrestling; throw over the hip;
buttock (rare)
throw over the hip; cross-buttock
throw over hip
(in wrestling) draw towards oneself before
throwing
running buttock
distend; swell out; dilate; expand; bulge out;
increase in volume; grow bigger or louder;
rise (as dough)
96
(cf. fopúu)
(cf. fórokóo)
= ḅịḅịḍọụgha
fugu2
fugu2
fugumó ̣
fugumó ̣gha
fugulú
fugulumó ̣
fugúmọ
fugúmọ
fugúmọ
fuká
fuká
fukurúu
fukurúu
fukurúumọ
fukúrufukúru,
fúkurufukuru
fulée
fulée
fúléemọ
fuléefulée
fuléefuléemo
fụlọmaịnmó ̣
fúmu
fúmukúu
fun1
funfun
fun2
n.
a.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
swelling
swollen, distended
cause to distend or dilate; leaven
unleavened
fester; suppurate
cause to fester or suppurate
move up; shift a little
cause to move
act of moving up
be proud, boast
pride
rustle (as in a hole)
rustle; such sound
with a rustle
rustle; froufrou
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
a.
n.
fun tụa
fúngulu
fúngulu
fúngulúumọ
fúngulúufúngulúu
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
n.
afloat; floating in liquid
bob up to float
in a floating manner
bob; move up and down
in a bobbing manner
weed used as vegetable
swell and look pale
swollen
piece of useless matter in anything useful
abounding in useless pieces of matter
lot; one of a set of objects used to secure a
chance decision in dividing goods, selecting
candidates, etc.; such method of deciding by
lot
cast lots
wriggle (as larva)
wriggling movement
with a wriggle
same as above
fúntụa
fúntụa
fúntụa koro
furá
furá
v.p.
n.
a.
furá
v.i.
furamọ
v.t.
furó1
n.
furó1
furó1
furo-ákpa
furó bein
bp
bp
bp
n.
v.p.
bp
A. 21 in game of cards
B. any excessive gain in any undertaking
score 21; have much gain
conception; pregnancy
pregnant; gravid; with child; (of tongue) with
slight swelling
become pregnant; conceive; (of tongue) have
swelling; (of frogs) swell up
make conceive; impregnate; get with child;
fecundate; cause to swell up; puff
A. abdomen; belly; cavity of body below
chest with stomach, bowels and other organs;
(outwardly) lower front of body
B. womb; uterus
C. entrails; bowels; intestines; garbage; offal;
guts
stomach
be full with; be filled
97
(cf. fakurúu)
(cf. fú ̣léẹ)
̣
furó beinmọ
v.p.
fill; satisfy; satiate; be tired of or fed up with;
make full; glut; cloy
D. bulging part or soft surface of many
objects and materials, e.g.
furó1
furóḅakala
furó fangala
furófángala
furo-ílạ
kalafuro
opufuró
furó2
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
furó2
furo-ébi
a.
furósei
a.
furótọgụ
n.m.f
.
n.pl.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
a.
furó ḅakala
furo-ó ̣wọma
furu
furu
furu
furuongu
furu fọí ̣
furumindi
adv.
n.m.f
.
n.pl.
v.p.
n.
fúrukúu
fúrukúu
fúrukúumọ
futúu
futúu
futúumọ
fúu
fúu
a.
v.i.
adv.
id.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
fúumọ
fúufúu
adv.
n.
fúufúu
v.i.
fụ1
fụ2
n.
n.
furuḅara
furuḅọ
ḅụọfuro ‘calf’;
ḍigifuro ‘soft inner
part of cane rope’
have, cause to have colic or gripe
d
d
bp
bp
bp
p
p
p
p
colic; gripe
have, cause to have colic or gripe
colic; gripe
bowels; intestines; entrails; chitterlings
small intestines; chitterlings
large intestines; bowels
A. batch; brood; hatch; set; breed; race; stock;
strain; ancestry; lineage; family; pedigree;
dynasty
B. caste in N embe society
of high caste, with white entrails at time of
post-mortem examination
of low caste, with black and twisted entrails at
time of post-mortem examination
native; aristocrat
aristocrats
steal; take feloniously; thieve; abduct; kidnap
stealing; larceny; theft; thievery
stealthy; sly; furtive; clandestine;
surreptitious; secret;
stealthily; slyly; secretly; furtively
thief; larcener; larcenist; picaroon; rogue;
pirate
thieves
(of moon) appear late while waning
time of darkness; tides during first and last
quarter of phases of moon
distended (of sail); swell out in a bulky way
distend; swell out
in a dilated form
phut; sound as of bladder collapsing
collapse with such sound
with a phut
puff; short quick blast of breath
emit puff of air or breath from the mouth; hiss
(as snake)
with a puff
snorting noise resembling the snorting of
steam engine
snort; make explosive noise through nose,
usually expressing anger, etc., while looking
for something
cloth type
salt; efflorescence or saline particles that
98
cf. furu you ‘secret
fight’
(cf. fárukúu)
fụ paga
fụḅara
fụfọlímọ
̣
fụgá
fụgá
fụlá
fụláprị
v.p.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
fụlá prị
fú ̣léẹ̣
fú ̣léẹ̣
fú ̣léẹmọ
̣
fụléẹfụlé
ẹ̣
̣
fụléẹfụlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
fụlọ
fụlọ-ẹfẹrẹ
fụlọ ghọ koro
fụlọ sein
v.p.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.m.
a.p.
v.p.
fú ̣lụfú ̣lụ
fú ̣lụfú ̣lụmọ
fụmụ
fụmụ
fụnfụn
fú ̣ngbafú ̣ngba
fú ̣ngbafú ̣ngba
fú ̣ngbafú ̣ngbamọ
fú ̣ngọ
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
fú ̣ngọmọ
fụngó ̣
fụngó ̣
fụngó ̣ iderimó ̣
fụngọ-ígbọ
̣
fụngó ̣ iwomó ̣
fụngọmó ̣
fụrú ̣
fụrú ̣
fụrú ̣
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
v.p.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
n.
fụrụḅio
fụrụ-ítuka
n.
n.
fụrú ̣mo
fụrụmó ̣
ḅió fụrụ
-ḅiófụrụ
ḅiófụrụ
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
n.
h
cover damp wall or ground; dried remains of
sweat which appear white on the body
effloresce
fortune, luck
make slow but steady approach
claw; scratch another person with fingernails
act of scratching with nails
spittle; saliva as ejected from mouth
(masquerading) performance at waterside
before play in public arena
make such performance
afloat
bob up to float
in a floating manner
bob in water
in a bobbing manner
soup
soup-plate
tasty in soup (of fish, meat)
eat or drink soup; (fishing) obtain reasonable
catch
peevish; querulous; childishly impatient
be hot with rage or anger
peevishness
peevishly
faint; swoon; suffocate
fainting; swoon; suffocation; asphyxia
sniffing sound
blunder; bungle; fumble
blundering; bungling; fumbling
blunderingly; fumblingly
be dragged or hauled; shuffle; move with
dragging motion
shufflingly
drag; draw; haul; trawl
dragging; drawing
haul down
dragnet; trawl net; seine
haul up
drag, haul towards a direction
smell; reek; stink of; smack of
fetid; stinking; rank-smelling
stench; reek; smell; fetidness; foul or stale
odour
anger; vexation; angry mind
goatweed; hairy ill-smelling weed used as
medicine, sometimes used to revive chicks
fetidly; stinkingly
make or cause to smell; leave smell on
be angry
angry; wrathful; enraged
anger; rage; hot displeasure
99
<Kalabari
(cf. fulée)
Ageratum
conyzoides
(Compositae). lit.
‘smelling herb’
ḅiófụrụmọ1
ḅiófụrụmọ2
adv.
v.t.
n.
tọrú ̣ fụrụmọ
fú ̣tụfú ̣tụ
fú ̣tụfú ̣tụmọ
fú ̣ụ
v.i.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
fú ̣ụ
fú ̣ụmọ
fụụ
v.i.
adv.
n.
fú ̣ụfú ̣ụ1
fú ̣ụfú ̣ụ2
fú ̣ụfú ̣ụmọ
fú ̣ụn
n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
fú ̣ụn
v.i.
angrily
anger; annoy; vex; irritate
abusive term meaning literally "smell like
scour"; "stink-ball"; stinker
say such word
frown; grimace; look cross
fizz, bubbling sound
fizzle; make bubbling sound
bubbling
with a bubble
fizzle; chuff (of steam engine); hiss;
spluttering sound
make hissing sound
with a hiss
haft or handle (of cutting implements like axe
or adze)
continuous hissing sound
be frustrated in looking for something
with a snort
humming sound (as of mosquito in flight);
faint sound
make humming sound
G.
gáan
gáan
gáanmọ
gádagbáa
gádagbáa
gádagbáamọ
gadamú ̣ụ
gadamú ̣ụ
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
gadamú ̣ụmọ
gádịlị
gádúu
adv.
n.
a.
gádúu
gádúu
gádúumọ
gádú ̣ụ
gádú ̣ụ
gádú ̣ụ
gádú ̣ụmọ
gága
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
gágamọ
gái
gáimọ
gáiin
gáiin
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a
clear; unclouded; transparent; not turbid
become or grow clear
clearly
tall and huge; stalwart
grow tall
stalwartly
bring down (foot) heavily on ground; stamp
stamp; bringing down (of foot) heavily on
ground
with a stamp
cemetery; grave-yard; burial ground
stout; strongly built; robust; sturdy; with a
pronounced swelling
grow robust
robustness; stoutness
stoutly; robustly
pronounced (of a protuberance)
bud; spring forth; develop
pronounced swelling; protuberance
same as gádúumọ
resolute (of person or his health); bold; not
vacillating
resolutely
to come down heavily (e.g. on foot)
coming down heavily
bring down (foot) heavily on ground; stamp
stamp; bringing down (of foot) heavily on
ground
100
(cf. gan)
<Eng. garden)
(cf. gádú ̣ụ)
(cf. gádúu)
gáiinmọ
gáịn
gáịn
gáịnmọ
gajogajo
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
gajogajo
gajogajómọ
gákíi
gákíi
gákíi
gákíimọ
gákíị̣
gákíị̣
gákíị̣
gákíịmọ
̣
gákúu
gákúu
gákúu
gákúumọ
gákú ̣ụ
galaḅágalaḅa
galaḅágalaḅa
galaḅágalaḅamọ
galagalá
galágala
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.,
v.i.,
n.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
galagalá
galágalamọ
gálíi
gálíi
gálíimọ
gálíị̣
gálíị̣
gálíịmọ
̣
gámagáma
gámagáma
gámagámamọ
gámụụgámụụ
v.t.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
gámụụgámụụ
gamú ̣ụgamú ̣ụmọ
gan
gan
gánmọ
mịé ̣ gaánmọ
gapi
gapi
gapi
gapímọ
gápíị̣
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.,
v.i.,
with a stamp (of foot)
fixed; erect; vertical
be fixed by point into; stick into
erectly; vertically
bristly; like bristles; stiff; unbending; not
flexible
rise like bristles; bristle
stiffly; in a bristly way
erect; upright; vertical; not stooping
be fixed by point into
erectness
erectly; vertically
erect; vertical; upright
erectness
erectly; vertically
erect; upright; vertical
erectness
erectly; vertically
same as gákúu
confused; muddled; bungled
confusion
confusedly
rout; scatter
be routed; be scattered (as of roof by storm)
etc.
rout; scatter
scatteringly
erect; vertical (of penis)
erectness
erectly; vertically
erect; vertical
erectness
erectly; vertically
stagger; walk unsteadily
staggering movement
staggeringly
blink continuously due to foreign matter in
eye causing pain
blink at regular intervals
blinkingly
clear; unclouded
become or grow clear
clearly; unambiguously
make clear; clarify; reveal
fixed
be fixed
fixed position
fixedly
same as gapi
101
(cf. gákíị,̣ gákúu)
(cf. gákíi)
(cf. gákíi, gákú ̣ụ)
(cf. gáan)
(cf. gápíị)̣
garadíi
gapi
gapi
garadíimọ
gáradíị̣
gáradíị̣
gáradíị̣
gáradíịmọ
̣
gáragára
gáragára
gáragára-ịsọnọ
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.m.
gáragáramọ
gárakíi
gárakíi
gárakíi
gárakíimọ
gárakíị̣
gárakíị̣
gárakíị̣
gárakíịmọ
̣
gáramú ̣ụ
gáramú ̣ụ
gáramú ̣ụ
gáramú ̣ụmọ
garángaran
garangarán1
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
garangarán2
garangaránmọ
garangarán
odú garangaran
pọgó ̣ garangaran
gari
garigari
garigarí
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
a.
a.
garigarí
v.i.
garigarímọ
garịgarí ̣
adv.
a.
garịgarí ̣
garịgarímọ
̣
gáya
gáyamọ
gázara!a
gázara!a
gázara!a
gázaráamọ
gede1
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
mi
gede2
n.
ga
i
stout; firm
be fixed firmly
firmness
stoutly; firmly
bold; sturdy; stubborn
stand firmly
firmness
boldly; stubbornly; firmly
smart; quick
hurry up; be quick; make haste; speed up
non-biting, smart-moving small kind of ant,
fond of sweet food
smartly; quickly
firm; fixed (of larger objects); not shaking
be fixed firmly
firmness
firmly; steadily
firm; fixed (of smaller objects)
be fixed firmly (of smaller objects)
firmness
firmly; steadily
pungent (of smells)
smell pungently
pungent smell
pungently (of smells)
be clear or grow clear of growths on stem
clean up leaves, twigs, branches, etc. from
tree; clear noisy children out of a place
erect; vertical (of standing trees); alert
erectly; vertically; alertly
(come out) to be on the alert, ready to attack
be alert
cough to clear throat
grated and fried cassava meal
full of gari
raw; crude; (of eyes) have brownish red
colour due to much drinking or bathing
develop brownish red colour in eyes after
strong drink or after long bath
rawly; crudely; with brownish red colour
raw; crude; undiluted; (of old persons) hale;
robust; vigorous
become lively and hale
rawly; vigorously
contend; strive; quarrel (with person for thing)
dispute over something
gaunt; emaciated; lean; haggard; not plump
grow lean or gaunt
leanness; haggardness; gauntness
gauntly
meeting or alarm drum. Conical drum beaten
with sticks.
‘mancala’ or ‘the board game’ similar to
102
(cf. gáradíị)̣
(cf. garadíi)
(cf. garigarí)
gédegbáa
gédegbáa
gédegbáamọ
gelegelé
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
gelegelé
gelegelémọ
gelegúgelegu
v.i.
adv.
a.
gelegúgelegu
gelegúgelegumọ
v.i.
adv.
gelegúgeleguye
gélegúu
n.
v.i.
gelegúmọ
gélegúuye
ḍigi gélegúu
gémemée
gémeméemọ
genenée
genenéemọ
genénegenéne
adv.
n.
v.p.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
genénegenéne
genénegenéne
genénegenénemọ
génigéni
génigéni
génigéniye
geréḅageréḅa
geréḅageréḅa
geréḅageréḅa
geréḅageréḅamọ
geregere
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
geregere
geregere
geregerémọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
gerére
gerére
geréremọ
gé ̣
géḅọ
̣
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
adv.
gémọ
̣
gé ̣ pagamọ
fé ̣ sara
géẹgé
̣ ẹ̣
géẹgé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
Yoruba ayọ
huge; enormous; very large
growing tall
hugely; enormously
clear and audible; distinct; plain; definite;
unmistakable; certain; indisputable; real;
sincere
be audible or distinct
audibly; distinctly; really; certainly
wonderful; marvellous; surprising;
astonishing; amazing, doubtful
wonder; amaze
wonderfully; marvellously; surprisingly;
astonishingly; amazingly; doubtfully
wonder; strange thing
wonder; feel surprise; marvel; astonish;
amaze; astound; doubt; feel uncertain about;
feel strange or queer
wonderingly
miracle; strange thing
wonder at (something)
oblique; skew; slanting; squinting (of eyes)
obliquely; slantingly
flash; gleam; reflect light; spark; sparkle
flashingly; gleamingly; sparklingly
flashy; brilliant; lustrous; luminous; gaudy
flash; gleam
flashiness; luminousness; lustre; gaudiness
flashily; lustrously; luminously; gaudily
flecked; specked; speckled
become flecked or specked
fleck, speck, speckle; spot in the skin
physically vigorous, rough or violent
become rough, violent or vigorous (of play)
vigour; etc.
vigorously; roughly
bright; clear; distinct; limpid; pellucid; not
turbid; unclouded; plain
become clear (of water, cloud, etc.)
brightness; limpidness
brightly; clearly; distinctly; limpidly;
pellucidly; plainly
ramble; roam; wander (especially in distress)
wandering; roaming
ramblingly
write; pattern
writer; author
write to
write out; advertise; publish
write voluminously or fully
variegated; pied
variegatedly
103
(cf. gémẹmé
ẹ)
̣
̣
(cf. génẹné
ẹ)
̣
̣
(cf.
gẹnẹnéẹgẹnẹné
ẹ)
̣
̣
(cf. génịgé
nị)
̣
̣
(cf. géẹngé
ẹn)
̣
̣
géẹn
̣ 1
géẹnmọ
̣
géẹn
̣ 2
géẹngé
ẹn
̣
̣
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
minute
minutely
show faint light
speckled
géẹngé
ẹn
̣
̣
géẹngé
ẹn-aye
̣
̣
géẹngé
ẹnmọ
̣
̣
gélẹlé
̣ ẹ̣
v.i.
n.pl.
adv.
a.
appear in specks
flecks; specks
in specks
oblique; awry
gélẹlé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
gémẹmé
ẹ̣
̣
adv.
a.
obliquely
oblique; awry
gémẹmé
ẹ̣
̣
gémẹmé
ẹ̣
̣
gémẹmé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
génẹgé
nẹ
̣
̣
génẹné
ẹ̣ 1
̣
génẹné
ẹmọ
̣
̣
génẹné
ẹ̣ 2
̣
génẹné
ẹ̣ 2
̣
génẹné
ẹmọ
̣
̣
ẹ̣
̣
ẹ̣
̣
génịgé
nị
̣
̣
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
a.
look oblique
obliquity
obliquely
wave firebrand
oblique
obliquely
flash; glint; glitter; sparkle; gleam; glister
flash; glint; glitter; sparkle; gleam
with a gleam; glitteringly
flashly; gleamy
be flashy; be gleaming
pied; spotted; flecked; specked; speckled
génịgé
nị
̣
̣
gérụụ
̣
gérụụmọ
̣
gésụkú
̣
̣ụ
gésụkú
̣
̣ụmọ
giasíi
giasíi
giasíimọ
giḅụ
giḅụ
giḅụ
giḅúmọ
giḅumó ̣
giḅumó ̣
gídáa
gídáamọ
gíde
gídigídi
gídigídi
gídigídimọ
gidimúu
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.t.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
n.m.
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.i.
gidimúu
gidimúumọ
gígi
n.
adv.
n.
gígoro
n. &
v.i.
become spotted or pied
suitably small
in a suitably small way
suitably small
in a suitably small way
forcible; tight (of hold)
hold forcibly or tightly
forcibly; tightly
fresh (of flesh) not; musty; of stale taste
taste stale; be musty
mustiness; stale taste
stalely
male stale or musty
staleness; mustiness
firm (of hold); steady; (of sleep) deep
firmly; steadily; deeply
heavy rain
struggle; contend with; throng
rush; charge; struggle
with a struggle
quaff; gulp; swallow in copious or long
draughts
act of gulping
gulpingly; with a gulp
gig; rowing canoe chiefly used for racing or
quick errands
word which entitles one to petty things that
drop from another one; say such a word
104
bo
(cf. génịgé
nị,
̣
̣
géẹgé
̣ ẹ)
̣
(cf. gémẹmé
ẹ,̣
̣
génẹné
ẹ̣ 1.)
̣
(cf. gélẹlé
̣ ẹ,̣
gémemée)
(cf. gélẹlé
̣ ẹ)
̣
(cf. genenée)
(cf. genénegenéne)
(cf. géẹngé
ẹn,
̣
̣
génigéni)
(cf. gésụkú
̣
̣ụ)
(cf. gérụụ)
̣
(cf. gịasíị)̣
(cf. gídịgí
̣ dị)
̣
(praise name)
(cf. gịdịmú ̣ụ)
< English
gígoro kọrị
gilogiló
gilogiló
gilogilómọ
gilolíi
gilolíi
gilolígiloli
gimugimú
gimugimúmọ
gimugimú
gine
ginéni
v.p.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
ginéni
ginénimọ
gineni
ginenimó ̣
gịó ̣n
gịó ̣n
gịó ̣nmọ
giráa
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
gịó ̣n
giráamọ
giriḅúgiriḅu
giriḅúgiriḅumọ
gíridíi
gíridíi
gíridíimọ
gírigíri1
id.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
gírigíri1
gírigírimọ
gírigíri2
gírigíri2
gírigírimọ
giripúu
giripúu
giripúumọ
gịasíị̣
gịasíị̣
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.t.
gịbí ̣
gíbịlị
̣
gịbịlị
gịbịlímọ
̣
gịḅú ̣
gịḅú ̣
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
a.
v.i.
gịḅú ̣
gídịgí
̣ dị
̣ 1
1
gídịgí
̣ dịmọ
̣
n.
a.
adv.
fr
say ‘gígoro’
like crystal; crystalline; pellucid; transparent
become pellucid or clear
pellucidly
lure; something used to entice
recall or entice (person) with lure
flash (as of mirror waved in sun)
producing the sensation of heat; very warm
heatedly
warm up; heat up
full bunch of raffia palm fruit
drift, be carried (as by current of water; roll;
move down with aid of gravitation; slip down
(of undercut bank)
rolling motion
in a rolling manner
drift; roll; purge; scour
drift; purge; scour
bright (in outlook of weather, etc.)
brighten (of weather)
brightly
alight (of something heavy); descend;
dismount; settle; come to earth or tree, from
the air
thud made from a jump
with a thud
cartilaginoid; cartilaginous; gristly
in a gristly manner
steady; firm
become firm or steady
steadily; firmly
greedy; selfish; eager to get or keep; quick to
take advantage
be quick to take advantage
greedily; selfishly
shivering; shivery
shiver
shiveringly
strident (of sound of pulling); loud and harsh
pull stridently
stridently; loudly
sharp (of bite)
bite sharply; grab (something small); nip (of
crab)
carry; convey in hand or on head
be bored; move with revolving motion; twist
bore as with auger
with a twist
apt to break; fragile (as of old rope)
lose tensile strength due to age or decay (of
rope); become weak
weakness (of rope, etc.), fragility
firm; steady
firmly; steadily
105
(cf. gịlọgịlọ)
(cf. giráa)
(cf. gịrịḅú ̣gịrịḅụ)
(cf. gírịgí
̣ rị)
̣
(cf. giasíi)
(cf. gídáa)
gídịgí
̣ dị
̣ 2
gídịgí
̣ dị
̣ 2
2
gídịgí
̣ dịmọ
̣
gídịịn
̣
gídịịn
̣
gídí
̣ ịnmọ
̣
gídịn
̣
gịdịmú ̣ụ
gídọgí
dọ
̣
̣
gídọgí
dọmọ
̣
̣
gígị̣
gígị̣
gígịmọ
̣
gíịn
̣
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
gíịn
̣
n.
gíịnmọ
̣
gịlọgịlọ
adv.
a.
gịlọgịlọ
gịlọgịló ̣mọ
gịlọngịlọn
gíráa
̣
gíráamọ
̣
gịráa
gịráa
gịráamọ
gịrịḅú ̣gịrịḅụ
gịrịḅú ̣gịrịḅụ
gịrịḅú ̣ụ
gịrịḅú ̣ụ
gịrịḅú ̣ụmọ1
gịrịḅú ̣ụmọ2
gírịdí
̣ ị̣
v.i.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
gírịgí
̣ rị̣
gírịgí
̣ rị̣
gírịgí
̣ rịmọ
̣
gịrịkó ̣ọ
gịrịkó ̣ọmọ
gịrịp`ú ̣ụ
gịrịpú ̣ụmọ
gịrịrí ̣
gịrịrí ̣
ḅụgịrịrí ̣
odúgịrịrí ̣
gịrísịgịrí
sị̣
̣
gịrísịgịrí
sị̣
̣
gó1
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
n.
v.t.
gó1
n.
helpless (of laughter)
be helpless with laughter
helpless (of laughter)
dark
darken; become dark
darkly
darkness
quaff; gulp (of small quantity)
noisy (of a group)
noisily (of a group)
strenuous
be tired
strenuously
tinkle; make succession of clinking sounds in
the ear; chirp (of cricket)
succession of clinking sounds in the ear;
tinkle; chirp
with a tinkle
like crystal (of water); crystalline; pellucid;
transparent
become clear or pellucid
pellucidly; clearly
same as preceding
stumpy (of people); stunted (of people)
in a stumpy or stunted way
slight (of something small); settle lightly
light thud made from a light jump
with a light thud
apt to break; brittle; gristly
brittleness
short; concise
stop abruptly; break off suddenly
shortly; concisely
shorten; make short
move; pass (slightly); come in a group or at
the same time
shivery; shivering
shiver
shiveringly
short; brief; concise; curt; terse
concisely; curtly
excitingly brief; curt
curtly; tersely
shame; disgrace; ignominy
shame; be ashamed
shame (of self)
shame (of self)
gritty
grittiness
recite; read; rehearse; repeat aloud; interpret
(statement)
reading; interpretation
106
(cf. gidimúu)
(cf. gilogiló, and
next)
(cf. giráa)
(cf. giriḅúgiriḅu)
(cf. gírigíri)
gó2
gó3
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.t.
góḅịtẹ
n.m.
gó ̣bụgó ̣bụ
gó ̣bụgó ̣bụmọ
gódogbóo
gódogbóomọ
gódogódo
gódogódomọ
gogo
gógoi
gógoi toi
gókúu
gókúumọ
gólu1
gólumindi
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
gólugólu
gólu2
gomugomu
gomugomúmọ
gómuu
gómuumọ
gonomi
gonomíi
gonomíimọ
gonomu
gorigori
górogóro1
górogóromọ
górogóro2
a.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
górogóro2
górogóromọ
gorogoro
gorogoromọ
gorokíi
gorokíimọ
gororóo
gororóomọ
gó ̣dọgó ̣dọ
gó ̣dọgó ̣dọmọ
gó ̣gọ
gọgọ
gọgọnígọgọnị
̣
gọgọnígọgọnị
̣
gọgọnígọgọní
mọ
̣
̣
gó ̣kú ̣ụ
gó ̣kú ̣ụmọ
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
góḅọ
reader; person employed to read
call; mention; name; specify by name
sample; pattern (cloth):
cl
dr
b
sample of cloth; cloth sewn together from
different pieces
gurgle (as water from a bottle)
with a gurgle
huge; very large; enormous
enormously; hugely
boil over (with bubbles)
with large bubbles
felt hat
game; hopping (on one foot)
hop
steady; steadfast; stable; not bending
steadily; steadfastly
gold; ornament
oreide; brass resembling gold used in
imitation jewellery
consisting of gold
goal in football
erect; not stooping (esp. of breast)
erectly
erect; not stooping
erectly
jump in a sprightly way
vivacious; sprightly; lively
vivaciously
same as gonomi
bristly
boil over (with bubbles)
with large bubbles
tingle; feel irritating or uneasy sensation (in
organs like ear, nose, etc.)
tingling sensation
with a tingle
jump in quick or rapid succession
rapidly; in rapid succession
meet with obstacle
with an obstacle
come or go ashore (of canoe)
coming ashore (of canoe)
boil over (smaller quantity than gódogódo)
with bubbling
goose; bird sp. (unidentified) resembling duck
carve (meat) in pieces; chop
intricate; perplexingly entangled; involved
intricacy
intricately
steady; not bending
steadily; steadfastly
107
ḅịté ̣ go ‘sample
cloth’
(cf. gó ̣dọgó ̣dọ)
<English gold
<English goal
(cf. gọrọró ̣ọ)
family Anatidae
gọlí ̣
gọlí ̣
gọlọ
gó ̣lọọ
v.t.
n.
v.i.
a.
gó ̣lọọmọ
gó ̣lú ̣ụ
gó ̣lú ̣ụ
gó ̣lú ̣ụmọ
gó ̣mụ
gọmụ
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
n.
gó ̣mú ̣ụ
gó ̣mú ̣ụmọ
gó ̣ọgó ̣ọ
a.
adv.
n.
gó ̣ọgó ̣ọ
gó ̣ọméntị
̣
gọrọdíị̣
gọrọdíịmọ
̣
gọrọgọrọ
gọrọgọró ̣mọ
gó ̣rọró ̣ọ
gó ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
gọrọró ̣ọ
gọrọró ̣ọmọ
guasíi
guasíimọ
gúdugúdu
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
v.i.
gúdugúdu
gúdugúdu
gúdugúdumọ
gúdumúu
gúdumúu
gúdumúumọ
fufíi
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
fufíi
gufíimọ
gú ̣ga
gúgu
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
gúgu
gúgurúu
gúgurúu
gúgurúumọ
guíi
guíi
guíimọ
gulúgulu
gulúgulumọ1
gulugulú
gulugulumó2̣
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
t
ga
defame falsely; slander
calumny; false charge
shrill; shriek; screech
shrill; high-pitched (of sound or cry); coming
from far (of cry)
shrilly
cast down; hesitate; scruple
scruple; hesitation
hesitatingly
gum
umbrella tree
straight; without bend
straight (as of growth)
quack; gurgle; bubbling sound as of water
from bottle
make such sound
Government
gawky; scraggy
scraggily
skinny; thin; lean
thinly
narrow; not wide
narrowly
come, go, ashore (of small canoes)
shore
seize or hit forcibly
with force; forcibly
swarm; move in large number; be crowded
with
swarming
swarm
in swarms
concave; hollow
hollowness; concavity
concavely; hollowly
fall with dull sound, especially with mouth in
contact with an object
low dull sound; thud
with a thud
be sacrificed
word which entitles one to a chance in some
local games
demand such chance
concave; hollow (pan)
concavity, hollowness
concavely; hollowly
strike or touch with dull but forcible thud
low dull sound; thud
with a thud
scatter as of soft body in water; be dispersed
dispersedly
scatter; disperse; rout
scatter into something
108
<English gum
Musanga
cecropioides
<English
(cf. gororóo)
gún1
gún1
gún gba
gúngbaye
gún2
gún toguru
gúntoguru
gún3
gúne
gúne
gúnemọ
fí g̣ úne
gunúgunu
gunúgunu
gunúgunumọ
gúre
gúre
n.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
&
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
gú ̣a1
gú ̣a2
gụá1
gụá2
ẹgbé ̣ gụa
gụasíị̣
gụasíịmọ
̣
gụáva
n.p.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
v.i.
& n.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
n.
gú ̣ḅa
gụḅá
gú ̣da
gụdá
gụdamó ̣
tọrú ̣ gụdamọ
gú ̣dụmú ̣ụ
gú ̣dụmú ̣ụ
gú ̣dụmú ̣ụmọ
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
n.
adv.
gúre tọlụ
gúremọ
guré
guremó ̣
gurére
guréremọ
gurí
guríi
guríi
guríimọ
gurikíi
gurikitíi
guess; conjecture
guess; conjecture
guess; conjecture
figment; invented statement
ruminate; chew the cud
chew the cud
rumination
root; rout (of swine)
struggle (cf. next)
struggle
strugglingly
struggle for life
struggle
struggle
strugglingly
drift; being driven by current; (netweaving)
be carried by current; drift; (net weaving) put
gúre tọlụ in net
long mesh due to bad knotting
with a drift
drift; cause to drift; pack (rubbish, wealth)
drift; cause to drift; shift (rubbish
drift
with a drift
gave; abrade
(cf. gúne)
thump, bang, fall heavily with knee
falling heavily with knee
with a thump
same as preceding
same as preceding
fr
be mixed-up
be sacrificed
mix up
sacrifice
make sacrifice
forcibly hit (something small)
in a forcible way
guava tree and fruit
be folded (of arms)
fold, clasp (arms)
be bent; be folded
fold, clasp (arms); bend
fold (in, over, up)
grimace; make wry face
concave; hollow; narrow (of space)
concavity; hollowness
concavely; hollowly
109
Psidium guajava
(Myrtaceae)
gú ̣ẹẹ
gú ̣ẹẹ
gú ̣ẹẹ
a.
v.i.
n.
gú ̣ẹẹmọ
gụẹgụẹ
gụẹgụẹ
gụẹgụẹ
gụẹgụémọ
̣
gụẹgụẹmó ̣
gụgá
ẹgbé ̣ gụga
gú ̣gụrú ̣ụ
gú ̣gụrú ̣ụ
gú ̣gụrú ̣ụmọ
gụíị̣
gụíịmọ
̣
gụkí ̣
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
n.
adv.
n. &
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
gụkímọ
̣
gụlụgụlụ
gụlụgụlụ
gụlụgụlú ̣mọ
gú ̣mụgú ̣mụ
gú ̣mụgú ̣mụ
gú ̣mụgú ̣mụmọ
gụó ̣
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
gụó ̣
ḍirigụọḅọ
n.
n.m.f
.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
gú ̣rẹẹ
gụréẹ̣
gụréẹmọ
̣
gụrẹngụréṇ
gụrí ̣
gụrịrí ̣
gụrịrí ̣
gụrụgụrụ
gụrụgụrụ
gụrụgụrụ
gú ̣ụ
presentiment; having a foreboding
be prescient; have a foreboding
presentiment; vague expectation or
foreboding (of coming event, especially evil)
with foreboding
sad; morose; moody; gloomy; sullen
look sad, morose, etc.
sadness, moroseness, etc.
sadly; morosely; moodily; gloomily; sullenly
sadden; make sad
sacrifice
make a sacrifice
concave; hollow; narrow (of space enclosed)
hollowness; concavity
concavely; hollowly
similar to guíi, but applied to smaller objects
with a thump
knock; strike with hard blow (especially on
head)
with a knock
black; cloudy
grow black or dark
blacken; make black
shudder
shudder
shudderingly
make medicine with bad intent to harm; cf.
sorcery; wizardry
sorcerer; enchanter
short (e.g. of people and trees)
vivacious; lively; sprightly
vivaciously
short (e.g. of grasses or trees)
graze; abrade
graze; abrade
graze; abrasion
ticklish; easily tickled; sensitive to tickling
tickle
sensation of tickling
hesitate; show indecision
110
ḍiri gụọ practise
sorcery or
witchcraft; cure;
heal
GB.
gbá
v.t.
gbáḅọgọye
gbá ḍụḅamó ̣
gbámọ
n.
v.p.
v.t.
egberí gba
gbáan
gbáan
gbáanmọ
gbaḅúu
gbaḅúumọ
gbaḅú ̣ụ
gbadá
gbádagáa
gbádagáamọ
gbádagíi
gbádagíimọ
gbádaráa
gbádaráamọ
gbádu
gbádumọ
gbádugbádu
gbádugbádumọ
gbádụ
gbádụmọ
gbádụgbádụ
gbádụgbádụmọ
gbagagáa
gbagagáa
gbagagáamọ
gbágaláa
v.p.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
&
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
gbágaláamọ
gbagara1
gbagara2
gbágbaráa
gbágbaráamọ
gbagbasíị̣
gbagbasíị̣
gbagbasíịmọ
̣
gbágegee
gbágegee
gbágegeemọ
gbágidíi
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
gbágidíimọ
gbáin
gbáin
gbáinmọ
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
declare; describe; enunciate; inform; tell;
preach; proclaim
defence; excuse
exaggerate
accuse; indict; charge; impute; attribute;
ascribe (fault)
preach; tell a tale; blab; reveal or let out secret
glow
glow
with a glow
snap; break with sharp crack
with a snap
same as preceding
cut thick bush; lop; prune; trim; gash; mangle;
hack
dank; soaked; unpleasantly damp
dankly; in an unpleasantly damp way
huge and tall
in a mass
dauby; greasy
daubily; greasily
bubble up (of something large)
with a bubble
boil over with heavy bubbles
with heavy bubbles
bubble up (of something small)
with a bubble
boil over with bubbles
with heavy bubbles
creak; make harsh noise (as unoiled door)
harsh noise as of unoiled hinge; creak
with a creak
flat; with broad level surface and little depth;
wide open (of door)
flatly; opened wide (of door)
hover; loiter about place
edge; brink (of creek, bush, precipice)
hard and not suppurating (as of boil)
in a hard, non-suppurating manner
spank; slap with open hand
spank; slap with open hand on buttocks, etc.
with a spank
slant; oblique; inclined
slant; slope; diverge from a line
slantingly
very full (of sea or pond, usually because of
flood)
in a very full manner (of water)
bang; crash
bang; crash
with a bang
111
gbáịn
gbáịnmọ
gbalá
tịḅịgbalaweí
gbálaláa
gbálaláamọ
gbálagị
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
gbálagịmọ
gbalagígbalagị
̣
gbalagígbalagịmọ
̣
gbálị
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
gbálị
gbalí1̣
n.
v.t.
gbalí1̣
n.
gbalíḅaụ
̣
gbalíḅarayaí
̣
̣
n.f.
n.pl.
k
gbalíḍaụ
̣
gbalí d
̣ i
n.m.
v.p.
k
gbalị-ígbogi
gbalínyingi
̣
gbalítọgụ
̣
gbalíyaị
̣
gbalí2̣
n.
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
v.t.
gbalí3̣
gbalí3̣
gbamú ̣ụ
v.t.
n.
v.i.
gbamú ̣ụ
gbamú ̣ụmọ
mịé ̣ gbamú ̣ụmọ
gbamụụ
gbán
gbanmó ̣
gbánmọ
gbanmó ̣ye
n.
adv.
v.p.
a.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
k
k
k
(of sun) intense; violent; intensive; clanging
intensely; intensively; with a clang
tie a cloth round the head
head tie
flat
flatly
twisting; flexuous; sinuous; tortuous;
serpentine
sinuously; flexuously
coiling; winding; twisting; writhing
in a coiling; winding, or twisting way
receive food, nourishment, nursing care,
subsist; cure, etc.
= gbalí ̣
feed; supply with food; nourish; sustain with
food; nurture; rear; foster; nurse; act as
nursemaid to; have charge of; tend; wait upon
(sick person); try to cure (sickness); heal
(wound); subsist; support life; keep oneself
alive
means of supporting life; method of act of
feeding; subsistence; subsisting; sustenance;
method or act of receiving nourishment, cure,
etc.
adoptive daughter
Formerly an amount claimed by the father’s
family from the mother’s family of a child
born under a small dowry marriage at the
death of the father
adoptive father
adopt; take (person) into a relationship he did
not previously occupy
subsistence money
adoptive mother
adoptive child
adoptive son
add (especially in barter trade); join one thing
to another to increase weight or value:
consecrate; purify; sanctify; impart sanctity to
sanctification; consecration; purification
start; make sudden movement from fear, pain
or surprise
start; sudden movement
startlingly
startle; cause to start with surprise
not too big; of medium age, size, etc.
close; cover; shut
close; cover; shut
close upon
shutter; cover; flap
112
(also gbálị)
lit. "subsistence
money". cf. gbalịígbogi
ábangá gbalị ‘join
several bunches of
plantain together’
nama ékị
̣
̣ fịáí gbalị
add meat to food
(gift)’
gbánye
gbáan
gbána
gbaná
gbaná
gbanámọ
gbanamó ̣ya
gbanamó ̣
ḅụọgbanaye
yegbanayọ
gbangí ̣
gbangịrí ̣
gbangịrí g̣ ba
gbangịrí ṭ ụa
n.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
adv.
n.
n.
n. &
v.i.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
gbanụ kọrị
gbara
gbáragbára
gbáragbáramọ
gbararáa
gbararáa
gbararáamọ
gbararáagbararáa
n. &
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
gbaráragbarára
gbárị
gbarị
a.
v.i.
v.t.
gbarịmó ̣
gbaríya
̣
v.t.
v.t.
gbárụ
gbárụ
gbarú ̣
aka gbarụ
angbá gbarụ
gbarú ̣ piti
gbasa1
gbasa2
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.m.
n.
gbasa3
gbásíi
gbásíi
gbásíi
gbasíimọ
gbasị
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
gbasị
v.t.
gbanụ
cover; flap; lid; shutter
be closed, shut, covered
run ashore; be aground; run aground
A. take ground; rest on; strand
B. place or put on top; add; impose; lay upon
rest upon (side etc.)
rest upon one another
additionally
footstool
ledge
slip of tongue; lapse; lapsus linguae; slight
mistake of tongue; say such word
fry; stew
distort (of story, etc.)
bring or drag (embellishment, person) into
matter
same as gbangí ̣
make a slip of the tongue
keep vigil with pageantry
profuse (of sweat)
profusely
give forth sound as of thunder; rumble
rumble (as of thunder)
with a rumble
give forth continuous sound as of thunder;
rumble
full of long lines or cracks
fail; miss
glance aside (of weapon); glide off object
instead of striking it full; fail; miss
disappoint; break appointment with; fail
miss (of person or missile), fail to hit, find,
get, or meet (one another)
clench; be clenched (of teeth)
clenching (of teeth)
(of teeth) clench
clench teeth
suck in cheeks
pin across (of stick)
masquerade type
small stick
tp
outer rind of midrib of raffia palm leaf
headlong; precipitate (fall)
fall headlong
heavy headlong fall, precipitateness
precipitately
perfect; just; proper; equitable; absolute;
complete; fit; good enough
fit; befit; be of right measure, shape and size
for (especially of dress); exactly correspond to
(receptacle); suit; look well on
113
(slang)
kalá gbasa ‘small
sticks for the walls
of a local building’
(see ḅịlaí)̣
ị na gbasí let
̣ it
suffice you
gbasímọ
̣
adv.
gbasíạ
a.
gbasíạ
v.t.
gbasíạ
gbasíagha
̣
gbasíamọ
̣
mịé ̣ gbasíamọ
̣
gbáun or gbáụn
n.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
gbáun or gbáụn
gbáunmọ,
gbáụnmọ
gbédegáa
gbédegáamọ
gbédein1
gbédeinmọ1
gbédein2
gbédeinmọ2
gbéderáa
gbéderáamọ
gbée
gbéemọ
gbéeyo
gbégberáa
gbégberáamọ
gbégegee
n.
adv.
gbegégemọ
gbégeláa
gbégeláamọ
gbéguláa
gbeguru
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.m.
ọkẹlẹkẹ gbeguru
n.m.
gbéin
v.i.
gbein
gbékegbéke
v.t.
v.i.
gbékegbékemọ
gbelé1
gbelé2
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
&
v.t.
gbelémọ
gbémọ
adv.
v.t.
&
v.i.
perfectly; equitably; properly; absolutely;
completely; fitly; befittingly; suitably
equal; level; perpendicular; horizontal; plane;
evenly balanced
be equal to (person or thing in quality,
number, etc.)
equality
unevenly balanced; lopsided; unequal
equally, horizontally; perpendicularly
make equal; equalize
ring; peal; give forth clear resonant sound as
of vibrating metal, e.g. bell
ring; peal
resonantly; resoundingly; with a peal
large (of mass)
widely (as of sea or space)
heavy
heavily
calm; cool; staid
calmly; coolly; staidly
dauby; greasy
greasily
open; outspread (of space)
openly; without concealment
glade; open place in bush
hard and not suppurating (as of boil)
in a hard, non-suppurating manner
slanting
slantingly
flat and open (as of pan)
in a flat, open way
same as preceding
red-legged sun squirrel
m
al
African giant squirrel (giant forest tree
squirrel)
be deformed or badly stitched (of limb or
cloth)
sew; stitch
vacillate; waver; oscillate; sway from side to
side; rock
vacillatingly
small animal which drinks wine
enquire or inquire; make search (into matter);
seek information (of person, about or after
thing), ask for (goods in shop); ask how or
whether; proclaim (wares)
inquiringly
spring upon; throw upon; be thrown
114
(cf. gbé`déịn)
̣
(cf. jée)
(same as gbágegee)
Heliosciurus
rufobrachium
Protoxerus
stangeri. Also
recorded as okeleke
gbemó ̣
v.t.
throw; fling; hurl; cast (net); cf.
gbemó ̣-ịgbọ
gben
n.
v.t.
gben
gben
gben
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
ms
dc
gben
gben
gbene
gbengu
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
a
f
cast net
batter; bombard; harry; loot; maraud; plunder;
raid; harpoon; spear; throw at; (in wrestling)
fling; throw
pluck out fruit from oil palm head
masquerade
dance a kind of step in an Njọ dance called
ikpusu
swing (as monkey)
fall in wrestling; swing
hamlet; cottage
sea catfish sp.
gbérengíi
gbérengíimọ
gbereí
gbérerée
a.
adv.
n.
a.
gbéreréemọ
gbé1̣
gbé1̣
gbéfị̣
gbé ̣ fịya
gbéye
̣
gbé2̣
gbéye
̣
gbẹdẹgbẹdẹ
gbẹdẹgbẹdémọ
̣
gbédé
̣ ịn
̣
gbédé
̣ ịnmọ
̣
gbẹgbẹlịmó ̣
gbẹgbẹlịmó ̣
gbégbẹsụụ
̣
gbégbẹsú
̣
̣ụmọ
gbẹlụgbẹlú ̣
gbẹnẹ
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
gbẹnẹ
n.
gbéné
̣ ẹmọ
̣
tọrú ̣ gbẹnẹmọ
gbénẹgbé
nẹ
̣
̣
gbénẹgbé
nẹmọ
̣
̣
gbéngẹné
ẹ̣
̣
gbéngẹné
ẹmọ
̣
̣
gbẹngú ̣
gbéngụ
̣
gbẹngú2̣
gbẹnịgbẹní ̣
adv.
v.p.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
huge and tall; stately; dignified; imposing
imposingly; grandly
one (thing)
open; outspread (of space); wide and
extensive; expansive
extensively; expansively
pay; reward; remunerate
pay; reward; salary
amends; fair exchange
make a fair exchange
reward; payment; recompense; remuneration
digest; grind; crush; mash
file; strop; whet; grinder; millstone; etc.
mashy; mushy
mashily; mushily
heavy
heavily
tie cloth loosely round loins
such manner of tying cloth
at leisure; lazy; unoccupied
lazily
pop-eyed; having bulging eyes
gentle; sedate; sober; sane; serious;
thoughtful; responsible
composure; tranquil demeanour; calmness;
equanimity; sangfroid; coolness
gently; sedately; soberly; sanely; seriously
compose (countenance, thoughts, etc.)
conscious; deliberate
consciously; deliberately
idle; unoccupied
idly
dismantle (e.g. zinc from roof)
be dismantled; be cracked (of enamelware)
crack (enamelware)
numb
feel numb or cramp
numbness
115
ịgbó ̣ gbemọ ‘cast a
net’
Arius sp. cf. ịsịngí,
nẹgú ̣, nẹngú ̣, ọtíọ,̣
sịngí ̣
(cf. gbédein)
gbẹnịgbẹnímọ
̣
mịé ̣ gbẹnịgbẹnímọ
̣
gbẹréngị
̣
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
gbérẹngí
ị̣
̣
a.
gbérẹngí
ịmọ
̣
̣
gbésụ
̣
gbésụmọ
̣
gbiasíi
gbiasíi
gbiasíimọ
gbídigbídi
gbídigbídi
gbidigbidí
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
a.
gbidigbidí
gbidigbidímọ
gbídigbídimọ
mịé ̣ gbidigbidímọ
gbidigí
gbidígi
v.i.
adv.
adv.
v.p.
v.t.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
adv.
&
v.i.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
gbidígimọ
gbidígigbidígi
gbidíin
gbidíin
gbidíinmọ
gbigírigbigíri
gbigírigbigíri
gbigírigbigírimọ
gbíigbíi
gbíigbíi
gbíigbíimọ
gbíin
gbíin
gbíinmọ
gbikíi
gbikíi
gbikipúu
gbikipúumọ
gbimúu
gbimúu
gbimúumọ
gbímugbímu
gbímugbímu
gbímugbímumọ
gbíngiri
gbíngirigbíngiri
numbly
benumb; numb
collapse; undergo or experience breakdown of
mental, nervous or muscular power
huge and tall; stately; imposing; dignified
(similar to
gbérengíi, but of
something smaller)
imposingly
idle; unoccupied
idly
crashing heavily; violent
to crash headlong (of something heavy)
crashing heavily
heavy (of rain)
fall heavily (of rain)
dirty (of water); foul; muddy; not clear;
soiled; turbid; (of writing) illegible; full of
blots; (of body) full of rashes; (of riches)
countless; too many to count
grow dirty; develop rashes
dirtily; muddily; illegibly; profusely; lavishly
heavily, profusely (of rainfall)
make dirty
mix; put together
(be) mixed; muddled
mixedly
same as above
bellow forth (like thunder or cannon)
bellowing sound
with a bellow
roll
rolling motion
with a roll
shudder; shiver; flutter; quiver
shudder; shiver; flutter; quiver
quiveringly; shudderingly; shiveringly
thud; thump
thud; thump
with a thud or thump
elbow; jostle; thrust
jog; joggle; jostle; nudge
abrupt (of thought); sudden
abruptly; suddenly
twitch; jerk
twitch; jerk
jerkily
twitch; jerk
twitch; jerk
jerkily
roll
roll continuously
116
(cf. gbịmú ̣ụ)
gbíngirigbíngirimọ
gbíni
gbíni
gbínimọ
gbiní
gbiníya
gbínikíi
gbínikíimọ
gbiníngi
gbiníngi
gbiníngimọ
gbiningí
gbiriḅúgbiriḅu
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
&
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
with a roll
tangle; become involved
entanglement; tangle
in a tangly way
tangle; entangle; intertwine
intertwine; entwine (one with another);
become entwined
colour of soft mangrove mud (lalá)
with mud caked on the body
become involved
entanglement; tangle
in a tangled way
tangle; entangle
gristly; cartilaginoid; cartilaginous
gbiriḅúgbiriḅumọ
gbiriḅúgbiriḅuimgba
gbírigbíri1
gbírigbírimọ1
gbírigbíri2
gbírigbíri2
gbírigbírimọ
gbiríkigbiríki
gbiríkigbiríkimọ2
gbiripúgbiripu
gbiripúgbiripu
gbiripúu
adv.
n.
in a gristly or cartilaginous manner
cartilage; gristle
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
gbiripúu
n.
gbiripúumọ
mịé ̣ gbiripúumọ
gbisí
gbisímọ
gbisíi
gbisíi
gbisíimọ
gbísigbísi,
gbísigbisi
gbísigbísimọ
gbísili
adv.
v.p.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
of fire intense
intensely
surge; move up and down or to and fro
surging motion
with a surge
(of body) rough; not smooth
roughly
start (from sleep or surprise) repeatedly
intermittent or spasmodic movement; start
start from sleep; make sudden movement from
surprise, sleep, etc.
start; sudden movement of surprise, or from
sleep
startlingly
startle; cause to start; give shock to
abject; despicable; miserable; degraded
abjectly; despicably; miserably
come into violent impact
impact; collision
in collision
gbísili
gbísilimọ
gbisili
gbídịgbí
dị
̣
̣
gbídịgbí
dị
̣
̣
gbídịgbí
dịmọ
̣
̣
gbịdịgbịdí ̣
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
v.i.
gbịdịgígbịdịgí
,̣
̣
gbídịgịgbịdịgị
̣
adv.
v.i.
gropingly
stumble; lurch forward; have partial fall;
sprain
stumble; sprain
stumblingly
distort; twist (words
heavy and long-lasting (of rain)
fall heavily (of rain)
heavily
sodden; become sodden; (of writing) illegible;
become illegible
become sodden by being trampled
117
(cf.
gbịrịbú ̣gbịrịbụ)
(cf.
gbịníngịgbịní
ngị)
̣
̣
gbịlịgbịlí ̣
gbịlịgbịlímọ
̣
gbịmú ̣ụ
gbịmú ̣ụ
gbịmú ̣ụmọ
gbínịkí
̣ ị̣
gbínịkí
̣ ịmọ
̣
gbịnịngígbịnịngí
,̣
̣
gbínịngịgbịnịngị
̣
gbịrịḅú ̣ụ
gbịrịḅú ̣ụmọ
gbịrịḅú ̣gbịrịḅụ
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
very black; swarthy
swarthily
twitch; jerk; throb
twitch; jerk; throb
jerkily
very black; swarthy
swarthily
become sodden by being trampled
v.i.
adv.
a.
with a snap
brittle; fragile; apt to break
gbịrịḅú ̣gbịrịḅụ
gbírịgbí
rị̣
̣
n.
v.i.
gbírịgbí
rịmọ
̣
̣
gbịsíị̣
gbịsíị̣
adv.
a.
n.
gbịsíịmọ
̣
gbịú ̣ụm
gbịú ̣ụnmọ
gbó1
gbóye
gbó
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
brittleness; fragility
mark or walk away in military manner with
regular and measured tread
with regular and measured tread
satiate (of quarrel, case, etc.)
satiety; glutted or satiated state; feeling of
having had too much of something; extent
beyond what is desired: e.g.
to satiety
tingle; feel prickling or stinging sensation
tingling; prickling or stinging sensation
with a tingle
swear; take oath,
oath; solemn appeal to a god
cut or harvest banana or plantain: cf.
gbó2
v.t.
dig. excavate; make hole by digging: e.g.
gbó sụọ
gbodó
v.t.
v.t.
gbódo1
gbódo2
v.i.
n.m.
dig in (as thieves)
cut in many places; gash; hack; lacerate;
mangle
be cut in many places
sardine
gbodogbodó
gbodogbodómọ
gbódogóo
gbódogóomọ
gbódoróo
gbódoróomọ
gbógboróo
gbógboróomọ
gbogbósigbogbósi
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n. &
v.p.
v.t.
gbogogó
f
bold (of figures)
boldly
extraordinarily large
in an extraordinarily large way
(of writing, wound) bold; well-marked
boldly
brawny; muscular; thick
muscularly; thickly
god forbid! may it not happen!
to carve surface of wood (as of masquerades)
118
(cf. gbínịkí
̣ ị)̣
(cf. gbimúu)
(cf. gbịlịgbịlí)̣
(cf. gbịdígịgbịdí
gị)
̣
̣
(cf.
gbiriḅúgbiriḅu)
í ghọ
pọgó ̣ la
̣
gbịsíịtẹ
̣ ‘I’m
completely fed up’
cf. ye gbo
ábangá gbo
‘harvest plantain’;
ídu gbo ‘harvest
banana’
éke gbo ‘dig for
rat’; olú gbo ‘dig
for crab’
Sardinella
maderensis, =
búza, kigbo. cf.
afarụ1, ikerere,
kparakpará
gbógolóo
gbógolóomọ
gbóko
gbokó
gbokógboko ḅaị
gboló
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
noticeably large
in a noticeably large way
be scooped out
scoop out caked object; carve out
third day after tomorrow
touch; ring (bell) knock e.g.
gboló2
v.t.
gboló2
n.
gbó ̣lọ
igboma gboló
kpokpo gboló
gbololó
gbólolóomọ
mịé ̣ gbololómọ
gbolómọ
gbolomó ̣ya
gbongiátimi
gbóngonóo
gbóngoro
gbongoró
gbónonóo
gbóo
gborí1
gborí2
gboríyaị
n.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
gbóri
n.
bụọtongugbori
kọngó ̣gbori
gbóro
gboró
kirígboro
gborórogboróro
gbóun
gbóun
gbóunmọ
gbóungbóun
gbọdọgbọdó ̣
gbọdọgbọdó ̣mọ
gbó ̣dó ̣ịn
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
gbó ̣dó ̣ịn
v.i.
gbó ̣dó ̣ịnmọ
gbó ̣gọló ̣ọ
gbó ̣gọló ̣ọmọ
gbó ̣ịn
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
straighten the course of a boat or canoe by
means of a propelling action of the paddle at
the stern
such propelling action at the stern with a
paddle to straighten the course of a boat or
canoe
chisel
ring bell
make proclamation
straight; without bond or curve
straight
straighten
relate to; concern; affect
be connected, related, skin, related by blood
indolent wretched fellow
straight and long
be scooped out (of hole)
scoop inside a hole (of larger object)
straight and long
(of heart) be agitated or disturbed
catch
make or construct a fence or palisade
barrier; breakwater; bulwark; mole; rampart;
fence; palisade
tendon (of neck, heel); ropes for the head of a
mask
Achilles tendon
tendon of neck
floating dead trunk or tree; boom; driftwood
plant
planting
cracked; full of cracks; apt to crack
thwack; whack
thwack; whack
with a whang
tinkling device to scare animals from crops
marshy
in a marshy way
genuine; really proceeding from its reputed
source
rudely use a direct word where a roundabout
expression would be appropriate; call a spade
a spade
genuinely
with jaw hanging down; dejected; dispirited
dejectedly
straight; without bend or curve
to
bp
bp
119
(cf. gbóngoro)
ḅụgọ gbolo knock
at the door
(cf. gbónonóo)
(cf. gbóko)
(cf. gbóngonóo)
gbó ̣ịnmọ
gbọkọgbọkó ̣
gbó ̣lọ
gbó ̣lọ
gbọló ̣
gbọlọgị
gbọlọló ̣bọ
gbọlọló ̣yewarị
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
gbó ̣ngọị
gbó ̣ngọịmọ
gbó ̣ngọnó ̣ọ
gbó ̣nọnó ̣ọ
gbó ̣ọn
gbó ̣ọn
gbó ̣ọnmọ
gbọpụ
gbọpụ
gbọrị
v.t.
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
gbọrịḅara
gbọrịḅara
n.
a.
gbọrịḅọ
gbọrịtịḅị
gbọrịtịḅị
n.m.f
.
adv.p
.
n.
adv.
gbọrịye
gbó ̣rọgíị̣
gbọró ̣kụ
gbọrọró ̣
gbọụn
n.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
gbọú ̣nfịye
gbó ̣ụngbó ̣ụn
gbúda
n.
a.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
gbọlú ̣
gbọlú ̣
gbó ̣ngọị
gbọrịḅọ gbọrịḅọ
gbúdamọ
gbudáa
gbudáamọ
gbúdagbúda
gbúdagbúda
gbúdagbúdamọ
gbúdu
gbúdu
to
to
cr
straight
very tall or long
chisel; be bored
chisel
chisel; make chisel hole; bore hole
vegetable; Indian spinach
deceased ancestor
Basella alba
house of a deceased person or principal house
in which funeral rites are observed
give crack on the head
crack on the head
rock; move gently to and fro as in cradle or
chair
rocking motion
with a rock
straight and long (of smaller object)
straight and long (of smaller object)
call loudly and long
(of call) loud and prolonged
loudly and long
be full (of tide)
full tide
once; one; individual; single and integral, a,
an: e.g.
oneness; singleness; uniqueness; sameness
the same; identical; not different; one and the
same; monotonous; uniform; unvarying
one person; one man; one
gbọrị ifie ‘once
upon a time’
one by one
only, sole, person
exactly, just, positively, precisely; quite;
absolutely; entirely; altogether; outright
one (thing)
dilapidated: about to collapse
just now; right now
abrade; graze
peck; strike with beak; pick up with fork or
prong
fork (spoon)
pitted; full of scars
(of sleep) deep; lie helplessly without moving
deeply; without movement
sufficient; adequate; sufficing
sufficiently; adequately
squirm; kick; wriggle; writhe
squirming; etc.
with a squirm
make sound of bubble
bubbling sound of bubbling
120
(also gbọtịḅị)
(cf. gbụdáa)
(cf. gbú ̣dagbú ̣da)
(cf. gbú ̣dụ)
gbudú
gbudúmọ
gbúgaláa
gbúgaláamọ
gbugbú
adv.
n. &
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
gbúgburúu
gbúgburúumọ
mịé ̣ gbugburúumọ
gbulásigbulási
gbulásigbulásimọ
gbulasíi
gbúlasíimọ
gbulu
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
gbulu-ịdẹgẹ
gburáa
gburáa
gburáamọ
gburáagburáa
gburáagburáa
gburáagburáamọ
gburangburan
gburangburan
n.m.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
gburangburan
gburangburánmọ
gburugburú
gburugburu-áye
gburugburúmọ
gburúrugburúru
gburúrugburúru
gbururúu
gbururúu
gbururúumọ
gbụda
gbụdamọ
gbụdáa
gbụdáamọ
gbú ̣dagbú ̣da
gbú ̣dagbú ̣da
gbú ̣dagbú ̣damọ
gbú ̣dụ
gbú ̣dụ
gbú ̣dụmọ
n.
adv.
a.
n.pl.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
gbúdumọ
gbúdugbúdu
with a bubble
same as above
f
f
actual; real
actually; really
lie still (of something wide,
unmovingly (of something wide)
shake; move something quickly up and down,
or to and fro, with the hands
dull; without edge or point; blunt; obtuse
bluntly; obtusely
blunt; make less sharp
flexible
flexibly
flexible
in a flexible way
mullet sp. with a rounded head:
mullet sp. with a rounded head
bang; strike or shut noisily; fall heavily
bang; noisy, hard shut
with a heavy bang
splurge; make noisy display
noisy display
with a splurge
glow; be heated to incandescence; incandesce
incandescent; glowing with heat; shining
brightly
incandescence
with incandescence
sedimentary
sediment; lees; dregs
sedimentarily
rumble (as thunder)
rumbling (of thunder); rumble
give forth sound as of thunder; rumble
rumbling (of thunder); rumble
with a rumble
sufficient; adequate
(of sleep) deep
deeply
squirm; writhe
squirming
with a squirm
make sound of bubble
bubble; sound of bubble
with a bubble
121
(cf. gbú ̣dụgbú ̣dụ)
cf. gbú ̣galáa)
(cf. gbụlásịgbụlásị)
(cf. gbú ̣lasíị)̣
family Mugilidae.
cf. abaraká,
akú ̣rọ,
ịdẹgẹ, mó ̣mgịnị,
gbulu-ịdẹgẹ?
[ẹkpẹrú ̣kpẹrụ,
ó ̣zọló ̣lị2,]
= gbulu
(cf. gbụráa)
(cf. gbúda)
(cf. gbúdagbúda)
(cf. gbúdu)
gbú ̣dụgbú ̣dụmọ
gbú ̣galáa
n. &
v.i.
adv.
a.
gbú ̣galáamọ
gbú ̣gbụrú ̣ụ
gbú ̣gbụrú ̣ụmọ
gbụkú ̣
gbụkú ̣
gbụláị
gbụláị
gbụláịmọ
gbụlásịgbụlásị
gbú ̣lasíị̣
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
gbú ̣ngụrụ
gbú ̣ngụrụmọ
gbú ̣nụgbú ̣nụ
gbú ̣nụgbú ̣nụmọ
gbụráa
gbụráamọ
gbụráagbụráa
gbụráagbụráamọ
gbụrụgbụrú ̣
n. &
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
gbụrụgbụrú ̣mọ
gbụú ̣
n.
adv.
n.
gbú ̣ụn
gbú ̣ụn
gbú ̣ụnmọ
a.
n.
adv.
fragrant; sweet-smelling
fragrance
fragrantly
suf.
A. not; it follows and makes negative ordinary
verbs and a few auxiliaries, e.g.
gbú ̣dụgbú ̣dụ
bubble continuously
bubbling continuously
lie still (of something spread out, smaller than
gbúgaláa)
unmovingly (of something smaller)
unexpectedly small (in size)
in an unexpectedly small manner
give crack on the head
crack on the head
squirm, wriggle (like snake on ground)
squirm, wriggle
with a squirm
flexible
wobble (e.g. of withered limb); quiver (e.g. of
pliant stick)
grumble; mean; murmur; mutter
f
murmurously; murmuringly
dirty; untidy
dirtily
fall lightly
with a light thud
fall lightly (repeatedly)
with a light fall
grim; stern
grimace; make wry face; scowl; wear sullen
look; look sour; frown ill-temperedly
angry frown; scowl; grimace
grimly; sternly
croaker
(cf. gbúdugbúdu)
(cf. gbulásigbulási)
(cf. gbúlasíi)
(cf. gburáa)
family
Scoaemodae
GH.
-gha
B. Equivalent to the English prefixes in- and
un-; suffixed to adjectives and their
derivatives to express negation, e.g.
-gha
gháa
gháa
v.i.
n.
speed; go fast
speed; rapidity of movement
122
á nimighá ‘I do not
know’, á gelegúgha
‘I do not doubt’, á
fịghá ‘I do not eat’
koríagha
‘inaccurate’;
ḅólogha
‘inadhesive’;
karágha
‘incomplete’;
ineghá ‘unable’;
ebígha ‘uncomely’;
tụó ̣gha ‘uncooked’;
(cf. vái, ghái)
gháimọ
ghaí
ghaighaí
adv.
excl.
a.
ghaighaí
ghaighaí
ghaighaímọ
gháị
gháị
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
gháịmọ
gháịn
gháụ
gháụ
adv.
excl.
v.i.
n.
gháụmọ
ghéi
ghọ
adv.
excl.
part.
ghó ̣ị
ghó ̣ị
ghó ̣ịmọ
ghó ̣ị-ọkọrọ
ghọí ̣
ghọí ̣
ghọímọ
̣
ghu
ghu
ghúu1
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
ghúu1
ghúumọ
ghúu2
ghúu2
ghúumọ
ghú ̣ụ
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
ghú ̣ụ
ghú ̣ụmọ
n.
adv.
speedily
yes
piquant; pungent; affecting organs of smell or
taste, or skin with pricking sensation
affect skin or mouth with pricking sensation
piquancy; pungency
piquantly; pungently
speed; move fast
speed; rapidity of movement (of smaller
creature)
speedily
response in story-telling
produce sound by rapid movement
speed producing sound (e.g. swirl of water
past a projecting bank)
speedily
response in story-telling
particle of varied use equivalent to: about; at;
by; from; in; on; amongst; of; within; etc., e.g.
shout; make loud inarticulate cry
shout; loud inarticulate utterance
with a loud inarticulate cry
loud inarticulate shout
char; burn to charcoal
charring
leave to char
echo
echo
utter or send forth loud deep sound as of sea,
storm, rain, noise of quarrel; rumour wildly;
roar
roar
with a roar
flow impetuously or fast (as rainwater); rush
rush; violent flow (of tide)
with a rush
flow impetuously (as water in a gutter) to
create a murmuring sound; rush
rush; violent flow
with a rush
(cf. vaivaí)
(cf. ghái, gháụ)
ó warí ghọ
emí ‘he
̣
is at home’, ‘he is
in’
(cf. ghú ̣ụ)
H.
háa
excl.
háahúu
háị
hée
héẹn
̣
hélị̣
hẹvịn
excl.
excl.
excl.
excl.
n.
n.
shout of exclamation expressing laughter, joy,
suspicion
sound made when hurt by too much pepper
shout calling attention
shout of exclamation expressing laughter
shout of exclamation expressing warning
hell; place of torture
heaven; abode of God
123
<English
(also évịnị)
̣
<English heaven)
híin
húun
excl.
excl.
shout expressing dislike
shout expressing doubt or dissatisfaction;
humph
I.
ibé
ibeká
ibenga
n.
n.m.
n.
ibéria
íbidi
íbiditiri
ibó
ibóli
ibóli
ibolí
osuó-iboli
ibóro
iḅéḅu
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
iḅele
iḅelúḅelu
iḅigá
íḅe
n.m.
n.m.
n.
a.
íḅe
iḅomó1̣
iḅomó2̣
v.i.
&
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
iḅomó3̣
n.
iḅokó
álagbá-iḅoko
iḅókoo
iḅókoomọ
íḅu
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
iḅuḅu1
iḅuḅu2
iḅúkúu
iḅúkúumọ
iḅúlu
iḅurúḅuru
iḅútúu
iḅútúumọ
idé
idé-iboro
idémọfú ̣
iderí
n.m.
n.m.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
&
t
h
tp
hg
fg
cr
i
f
tp
fr
f
t
sh
fg
c
clan; tribe
tree sp. resembling cocoa plant in appearance
saltwater fern
love-potion; philtre
scuffle; scrimmage
scene where a scuffle takes place
fork in tree
bent like a bow; arched
be arched
bow; weapon for shooting arrows
rainbow
fish-net; driftnet
two bananas or plantains which are not split
but still joined together (cf. under ábangá)
black biting ant
small fry of fish (in general?)
prop-root of mangrove tree
prone; lying face downwards; lying flat;
prostrate
lie face downwards
upside-down; face downward; pronely
cause to turn upside-down or into prone
position
lean-to roof; pent-house; awning; canopy;
porch
heavy piece of iron
barrel of gun
dull and lazy
dully and lazily
very ripe raffia palm fruits found at the base
of the tree
globe-fish, puffer-fish, swell-fish
club (suit in cards)
lazy and dull
lazily and dully
grey hair
tree sp. with very weak stem
dull and dirty
dully and dirtily
fibre obtained from a shrub sp.; plant itself
drift-net woven with the above fibre
white shrimp found in the sea and sea coast
descend; come or go down; sink; fall
124
Acrostychum
aureum
cf. isongu
(cf. iḅúkúu)
Tetraodon lineatus
(cf. iḅókoo)
iderí
iderí
v.t.
a.
n.
iderídụ
iderídụ
iderímọ
n.
a.
v.i.
iderímọ
a.
iderímọ
iderimó ̣
adv.
v.t.
idéru
n.
idié or idiyé
n.
ft
ídu
amakoromọ-idu
ọḅụgó ̣-idu
idú
n.
n.
n.
n.
fr
fr
sh
idú mangị
idu-ó ̣lalị
ikiḅa-idu
v.p.
n.
n.
tr
tr
tr
íduḍiri
n.
fr
ḅéke-idukumu
n.
idúfíi
ídukumu
idumu
ifere
a.
n.
n.
a.
ifere
ifere
ifere
iferemó1̣
iferemó2̣
ifié
v.i.
n.
ifié-ifie ḍigi, ifiéifie kịẹn
a. or
adv.p
.
adv.
v.t.
n.
low; not high; not elevated
descent; downward slope; descending;
downward motion
south; southward; lower part (of river, etc.)
southerly, southern; southward
abate; grow less; degrade; debase, diminish in
intensity or pitch; diminish or come down in
price; sink; descend
meek, piously humble and submissive;
showing low estimate of one’s own
importance
humbly; lowly; meekly
abase; degrade; depose; dethrone; lower;
reduce to lower rank; humiliate; humble;
make base; mitigate; let or haul down (boat or
sail); diminish height of; diminish intensity or
pitch; diminish price; slope downwards
wine from raffia palms in particular and other
palms in general
hiding-place for fish formed by over-hanging
roots of plants growing near water
any banana plant and banana fruit
banana with very short fruits
shrub sp. and its yellow fruits
secular feast in honour of Amatẹmẹsuo played
once in about seven, fourteen or twenty-one
years
stage idú festival play
idú festival
rehearsal of idú at the death of a traditional
priest or on a special occasion
lime
green substance resembling potash, used for
curing (e.g. foot-yaws)
blubber-lipped (of humans, animals, fish, etc.)
see íduḍiri
group
light; of little weight; not heavy; friable and
porous (soil, bread); not grave; unimportant
(person); unwanton; unchaste (woman);
nimble; quick-moving; agile; active (of body
and movement)
feel light; feel relief; grow lighter
A. levity; lightness of weight
B. medicine supposed to cause levity
lightly
lighten; mitigate
chance; interval; leisure; occasion;
opportunity; moment; time; era; epoch; season
(specified as time)
occasional(ly); arising out of special occasion;
coming now and then, not regular or frequent;
seasonal(ly)
125
(see odú-iderimọ)
or ídukumu Citrus
aurantifolia
...ifie-ifié
(-gha) ifie-ifie
ifieá-ifiea
ifiémábịsé ̣
...ifiémị
adv.
adv.
adv.
adv.
n.p.
anytime; whenever
since; until
often; frequently; regularly; many times
every or all the time
the time that; when; now that; as;
ifié famọ
v.p.
ifié seimọ
ífinía
ifingi1
v.p.
n.
n.
Ifingi2
Ifingi2Ifingiḅọ1
a.
n.m.f
.
a.
v.i.
n.m.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
lose or waste time; dally or dawdle away time;
idle; loaf; loiter; pass away time
spend or waste time
farina; manioc; cassava
cob (e.g. of maize);
cf. ịmbịakpá ifingi
‘maize-cob’,
‘corncob’; ábanga
ífingi
of or pertaining to the Efiks or Calabar people
Efik person
ifingi3
ifingi3
ifingiḅọ2
ifíri1
ifirimó1̣
ifíriyọ
ifíri2
ifiri
ifirimó2̣
ifeín
ifónóo
ifónóomọ
ífuku
igá
ịgáran’obiri
igba
ḍụẹị-igba
igbé
cr
cr
et
et
igbékere
igbelégbe
v.t.
n.m.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
f
mi
igbelegbe
n.m.
ms
igbema
n.
mi
ígbi1
ígbimó1̣
ígbi2
igbimó2̣
igbídi
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
c
da
ó ḅotẹ ifiémị, á mu
laté ̣ ‘now that he
has come, it is time
I went (I should
go)’
having scrotal hernia
develop scrotitis or scrotocele
man with scrotitis
leak; ooze out; seep; percolate
leak upon
leak; seepage
be stripped of feathers
pluck or remove feathers from a bird; strip
(bird) of feathers
remove (feathers) into (a receptacle)
big oyster; ship worm or teredo-worm
stout; bulky; corpulent
stoutly
throwing stick or stone
cloth woven with raffia fibre
large type of dog first introdued from Igala
box; case; coffer
coffin
land; set or go ashore; arrive by water
sleeper sp. (‘hard-scaled sleeper’)
animal (usually antelope) horn used as
transverse horn. Used for the ḍụẹị fẹngụ
ceremony
masquerade borrowed from Tombia,
involving play with 2 crossed swords
big bell. Church bell, hand-bell used to
control dancers. Tied to the waist of wrestlers
struggle; be busy
strugglingly; busily
burn with intensity (of fire)
intensify (of fire)
confused and disastrous situation; free fight;
126
family Eleotridae
igbidi-anda
igbidi
s. +
v.i.
n.
n.
igbigbá
igbígbáa
n.
a.
igbígbáa
igbígbáamọ
igbína
igbipẹlẹ
n.
adv.
n.
a. &
v.i.
n.
n.
v.p.
igbídi paga
ígbipú
igbiri
igbiri nanga
scuffle; scrimmage; disorderly fight: e.g.
scuffle took place
po
dr
fr
mi
mi
t
ms
Igbokiri
Igbopiri
igbokiri-eke
igbopulo
igbogí
anda-igbogi
ḅéke-igbogi
pépa-igbogi
igboun
n.
n.m.
a.
n.m.f
.
p.n.
p.n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
igboun
igbú prị
igburu
igédi1
igédi2
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
f
igédi3
igediḅọgọ
bp
igére1
igére2
n.
a. &
v.i.
n.
n.
igini
íginínga
igíri
igíriḅẹlẹgị
igíri-ikoso
igíripagara
igirigi
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
igbiritíṇ
igbó
Igbo
Igboḅọ
et
et
et
da
c
ft
mixed, free wrestling of different age groups
ridge raised on flesh due to insect bite or by
stroke of rod or whip; wale; weal
pot with rounded bottom and no legs
(of new knife) blunt; dull; without edge or
point; (of left hand) clumsy
bluntness; dullness of edge or point
bluntly; rudely
waist bead
cut in halves for cooking (of plantain)
sweet-smelling fruit kernel like nutmeg
rattle for tying on legs of masquerade
rattle; give out rapid rhythmical beat by
shaking rattles tied on to feet
tree from which rattles are obtained
masquerade type
of or pertaining to the Igbo tribe or Igbos
Igbo person; a slave (pl. Igbon’ongu)
Igboland
Igboland
guinea-pig or rabbit
soft oil
money; cash; currency
manila currency
English currency
money or postal order; currency notes
barnacle with very hard shell; women’s game
with its shell
‘dog whelk’
be dead
big covering cloth; mantle
bead type
hard section or foot by which mollusc attaches
itself to the shell:
glans of penis
(be) anachronistic, out-of-date, antiquated
r
nickname for crocodile
chip; a way of holding somebody on the neck
in wrestling:
ms
h
bp
d
bp
bp
masquerade type
plant sp.
anus; cloaca
haemorrhoids; piles
coccyx
buttocks
big; enormous
127
class Gastropoda
(idiom)
cf. ímgba-igede
‘foot of oyster’
cf. tọngó ̣-igedi
cf. isegí
cf. igére ékị
̣ kí
chip; throw one’s
opponent by this
method
igirigi
n.m.
b
palm-nut vulture = vulterine fish-eagle
igóbiri
igótọgụ
n.m.
n.m.
da
b
dog with fawn colour
eaglet; juvenile palm-nut vulture
igodó
ḅió-igodo
kpepu-ígodo
ígodógo
n.
n.
n.
n.
igogoḅá
igoin
igoin
igoinḅọ
igoinfị
n.
v.i.
n.
n.m.f
.
a.
igoinmó ̣
igóli
igologoló
v.t.
a.
n.
ígoni
igoní
igoní
n.m.
n.
n.m.f
.
a.
igoní
mi
h
p
used in phrases such as
mi
ms
p
igoní dọgụ
igoníkiri
igú1
igú2
íguegele
ms
dr
b
iguru
n.m.
bs
igurutugu
ígwe
n.
n.
ft
mi
ígwekalị
íjan
p.n.
a.
tr
íjan
íjan
íjanghá
íjanmọ
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
Gypohierax
angolensis
(pl. igoin-ongú)
orí igoinfítẹ̣ warị
ghó ̣ paganịmị ‘he
comes from a
House that has been
perpetually poor’
impoverish; make poor
bent like a bow
small bell, usually tied to waist in
masquerades and to children learning to walk
masquerade type
hospitality
guest; visitor; stranger
alien; foreign; novel; hitherto unknown;
strange
foreign-home or land
foreigner; stranger
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
igoni-áma
igoníḅọ
lock; padlock
in-lock; rim-lock
padlock
drum which House of Mẹịn claims sole right
to beat
thistle; a prickly plant
be impoverished; be indigent; be poor
poverty; poorness; indigence
poor person; pauper
Gypohierax
angolensis (=
ágbalakóko)
be dead
strange district, country or land
masquerade type
iron ornament for adorning the head
village weaver bird
container woven with cane, rope, etc., used to
hold fishing catch
last fish, etc., to be emptied out of iguru
mouth-resonated musical bow with a raffia
string played by adults for entertainment. The
string is struck with a stick, and the vibrating
length controlled with another, shorter stick
Arọ Long Juju
ample; copious; plentiful; many; abundant;
several
abound; be plentiful
abundance; plenty
few; not many; scanty
plentifully; copiously
128
(pl. igoni-óngu)
(idiom)
Ploceus cucullatus
(= álụgụḅíya;
̣ cf.
lụgú ḅịa))
(= ḅoútugu)
íjanyaị
mịé ̣ íjanmọ
ikagi-opin
n.pl.
v.p.
n.
ikegima
ikein
ikéin
n.
n.
n.
ikelé
v.i.
ikelé
v.t.
ikelé
ikelékele
ikelékele
ikelekelemó ̣
ikeleku
ikemu1
kalá
ikemu2
ikereḅú,
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ms
tp
tp
tp
cr
encircle; encompass; enclose; surround; fence
in
enclosure; environment; surrounding
swing round; go in circles
turning round and round
cause to swing round
masquerade type
root; rootlet; root-hair
small or big root
spikelet of palm bunch
cocoyam
ikereḅurú
n.
cr
cocoyam
kwakwáa-ikereḅu
kesi-ikereḅu
n.
n.
cr
cr
purplish cocoyam
new cocoyam
ikereḅu
n.
cr
old cocoyam
ikeremanị
n.
sh
ikerere
n.m.
f
roots of a shrub used for weaving mats and
screens; the plant itself
small fry of [Cameroon?] Madeiran sardinella
íkerére
ikiḅa1
ikiḅa1
ikiḅamó ̣
ikiḅa2
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
d
r
dr
ikiḅa2
ikiḅa2
a.
ikiḅatugu
íkiíki
ikiká
ikikení
ikilá
ikió
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
&
plenty of
multiply
Home’s hingeback tortoise
iron; metal
dry rot of tubers
shreds of oil palm fibre formerly used as an
apron in olden days
be around, on every side, in every direction,
about: e.g.
rash on the body
briefness; conciseness; shortness
brief; concise; short
briefly; concisely; shortly
A. half; one of two equal parts into which a
thing is divided; e.g.
B. fathom (of cloth);
half; forming one of two equal parts into
which a thing is divided; e.g.
cl
d
i
double yard cloth
secret; secretive
fragment; piece; shred
disease akin to ababá
soldier ant
remember; recollect; recall to mind; retain in
the memory; meditate; reflect; plan mentally;
129
Kinixys homeana.
cf. ịkagị
same as osikó;
gbori íkelé ‘fence
round’; tịẹ ikelé
‘stand round’ etc.
or opú ikemu
Xanthosoma
mafaffa (Araceae)
Xanthosoma
mafaffa (Araceae)
Xanthosoma
maffafa
Colocasia
antiquorum
Nephthytis afzelii
(Araceae)
Sardinella
maderensis, =
afarụ1 cf. búza,
gbódo2,
kparakpará, kigbo
ololo-ikiḅa ‘half of
a bottle’
see under ḅịtẹíkiḅa
ikiḅa ololo ‘half
bottle (e.g. of
wine)’
v.i.
ikió
ikiomó1̣
ikiomó ̣ye1
ikiomó2̣
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
ẹkị ikiómọ
ikiómọye2
v.p.
n.
ikióye
n.
ikiri
ikirímọ
v.i.
v.t.
ikirigbú
ikirigo
ikísa
n.m.
n.
n.
ikísa
ikó
ikogi
ikógíi
ikógíi
ikógíi
ikógíimọ
ikogi ḍoí
ikogitugu
ikogi wagí ̣
ikoli1
ikoliḅagụye
ikoliwarị
ikoliwarịḅọ
ikoli2
ikolokoló
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
ikoróa1
ikoróa
ikoróa-ogu
ikoróa2
ikosó
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ikpá
n.
ikpaikputukpoluye
kpaịn-kpotukpoluye (ḍụwẹịye)
n.
ikoliwarịḍigiḅọ
go back in thought; consider; think; guess;
speculate; commemorate; be a memorial of
thought; remembrance
remind; revive the memory of
reminder
intend; purpose; design; expect; look forward
to; regard as likely; hope for (thing); be of
opinion
suspect; be inclined to think that
intention; expectation; hope; purpose; thing
intended; speculation; suspicion
thought; sober reflection; consideration;
remembrance; recollection; meditation
forbear
endure, bear e.g.
mi
mi
tp
bp
bp
bronze are; manila
cylindrical slit-gong
drum used in wrestling and on war canoes.
Played with two wooden sticks. A footed,
standing, subconical, drum, ca. 60cm. tall
act of kneeling; genuflexion
stump of trees; raised waist in human beings
loin
crooked; not straight (of gait)
become or look crooked or bent
crookedness
crookedly
turn or change over side in sleep or in sitting
hip
same as ikogi ḍoí
jail; chain; fetters; manacles; shackles
hammer
prison, jail
prisoner
odu íkirimọ
‘comport oneself
(esp. in trouble)’
cf. inkoro
cf. ojé
(pl. ikoliwarịongu)
warder; gaoler; jailer
f
sn
legs of pot
fish sp.; Characin species
King in game of cards
Jack in game of cards
twenty with the card hearts
device on a climbing rope
small snails, which are used as draughts or
tops
platform in the form of a sleeping place put as
shrine for departed ancestor; mud-bench
tree sp.
130
order
Characiformes. cf.
ịságụ, ọkpaịn
Marantochloa
leucantha
(K.Schum.) MilmeRedh. (white fls.) or
M. purpurea (Ridl.)
Milne-Redh.
(purple fls.)
(Marantaceae). cf.
ekuwekuwebaberi
[?]
[?]
ikpégara
ikpékere
ikpeku
n.
n.m.
v.i.
cr
f
ikpeku
n.
ikpekumindi
ikpekumó ̣
n.
v.t.
ikpekumó ̣ye
ikpekupulo
ikpiri
n.
n.
n.
ikpirikpa
ikpírikpáa
ikpírikpáamọ
ikpó1
ikpó2
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
ikpó
díli-ikpo
éri-ikpo
ikpókpo
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
ikpoún
n.
ikpú
ikpúkiri
ikpú-pẹlẹ
n.
n.
n.m.
m
íkpungúlusanị
n.
cr
round pepper
ikpusu
ikpusu gben
ikputu
n.
v.p.
n.
dc
ikputuwarị
ịkọlị-íkputu
ikú1
ikú1
ikú1
ikú
n.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
n.
ikúmọ
ikúyaị
adv.
n.pl.
odú-ikú
a.
Njọ dance
dance such step
stone; block; brick; hard excrescence on trunk
of tree
brick or block building
corner stone
be heavy
heavy; of great weight; weighty
weight; heaviness
amount of urine urinated at once; hence nịna
íku
heavily
(lit. heavy things); things set apart as
accursed; taboo
lazy; slothful; indolent
f
yam sp.
coagulate; congeal; clot; curdle; condense;
freeze; solidify; set
coagulation; congealment; condensation;
solidification; forming into curd, clot or solid
ice
(cause to) coagulate; congeal; clot; curdle;
condense; freeze; solidify
coagulant; coagulator
hard oil
dirty-black:
stump; e.g. tịn ikpirikpa, ọfịnye ikpirikpa
short; not long
curtly; short
gun
method of tying head for fight or war: e.g.
ikpó fịna
clew or ball of thread
reel
reel; spool; bobbin
small fry of [balá or long-finned herring?]
West African ilisha
clot (of blood); clod (of earth); lump (e.g. of
salt); loaf (of bread); lump of concrete
coppice; copse; fallow
old abandoned farm lying fallow
grass-cutter; cutting-grass;cane rat (greater
cane-rat)
131
cf. ikpiri olú ‘dirtyblack crab’
Ilisha [melonata?]
Africana. cf. balá
Thryonomys
swinderianus (lit.
‘sugarcane-cutter’
Capsicum sp.
(Solanaceae)
odú-ikú
odu íkumọ
ikú2
n.
v.p.
n.
iku1
iku2
iku-iku
obiri-íku
ofoni-iku
pẹgẹ-iku
iku3
v.i.
n.m.
a.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
ikúdi
ikúdi
idúdimọ
ikufení
a.
n.
adv.
n.
ikuká
ikuka-áka
ikúku
n.
n.
v.i.
ikúku
ikúkumọ
ikúku-ikúku
ikula
n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
ikula
ikula
íkulá
ikulaḅọ
ikulamó ̣
ikúli
v.i.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
adv.
n.m.
f
ikúliḍiri
n.
h
ikumó ̣
v.t.
ikuri1
ikurimó1̣
ikuri2
ikurimó2̣
ikuru
ikuru
ikuruyó
íkurusí
íkurusi-imgbi
ilé
ilé
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
t
plant sp., the leaves of which are used for
thickening soup
wedge; pad; stuff; pack in tightly between
persons
wear off with use (of tools)
cause to wear off
cease fruiting (of trees)
cause to cease fruiting
creep (as children and beasts)
creep; creeping
creeping; on all fours
cannon; artillery
cannon ball
great-grand-child(ren)
tree sp. and its fruits;
ḅụḅá-ile
dísi-ile
n.
n.
t
t
species of ilé
species of ilé
i
i
i
i
t
bf
bp
bp
cl
laziness; slothfulness; indolence
make (one) lazy
draught; single act of drinking; amount drunk
at once; dose of liquid medicine; fill (of
wine); mouthful
fight; contend with in duel: e.g. you ékị
̣ iku
louse (especially head louse)
lousy
flea (in dogs, etc.)
louse (on bird)
crab-louse; pelvic louse
tree sp.
Panda oleosa Pierre
(Pandaceae); cf.
akụ
undulating; not straight
crookedness
crookedly
catarrh; flu; mucous evacuation from the nose;
snot; mucus of the nose
inner part of cheek
cheek-tooth; premolar or molar tooth
cringe; crouch; cower; stoop; bend timidly or
servilely
crouch; cringe; cower
stoopingly; cringingly
same as above
lame; cripped by injury or defect in a foot or
leg; limping
limp; walk lamely; hobble
limp; lame walk; lameness
mat formerly used in wrapping cloth
cripple; lame person
lamely; limply
sleeper sp. (‘mangrove sleeper’)
132
family Eleotridae
cf. abása-ikuli
Uapaca guineensis
(Euphorbiaceae)
dísi-ilé
ḍụẹị-ilé
íleléu
ḅéke-ileleu
ilikí
ilikí
ilikí
ilikimó ̣
iló
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
ilogú1
ilogú
n
v.i.
ilogú
ilogúmọ
ilogumó ̣
ilótoo
ilótoomọ
ilú
ílu
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
t
t
t
fr
bp
ga
ílu
h
tree resembling ilé
male ilé with flowers only and no fruits
tree sp. and its fruits; African or hog plum
English plum
blunt; dull; without edge
become blunt or dull
bluntness; dullness of point or edge
blunt; make less sharp
bone projecting at hip or collar due to
emaciation
morsel; mouthful (of food)
shout; make loud utterance or vocal sound;
utter loudly
shout; loud utterance or vocal sound; call
with a shout
blaze abroad; make known loudly
oversized
in an oversized manner
look for something amongst thick weeds
A. the stem or stalk by which plantain or
banana bunch is attached to the tree
B. children’s plaything made from the stalk of
plantain or banana
weeds in general
hot temperament
be hot-tempered
fat and bulky
fat and bulky
if
if only
nut or kernel of palms
eat
ilulá
ilulu
ilulu sou
imbákuu
imbáluu
ímbe
ímbeímbe
imbi1
imbi ḅagú ̣
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
a.
conj.
conj.
n.
v.p.
imbiḅagụyé
imbiḍigiḅó ̣
imbi-ịmgbọ
imbi-olo
imbitịḅị
béke-imbi
kugó ̣-imbi
toguru-ímbi
imbi2
imbi3
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
imbi fị
imbi4
imbi-ịgbọ
imbúluu
ímburú
v.p.
v.t.
n.
a.
a. &
n.
stick for cracking kernel
produce examiner
oil palm-nut
coconut oil
one head of coconut
coconut tree or fruit
testicle
palm-kernel
nut (of engine) for securing or adjusting bolts
draughtsman (of a game); piece (in a boardgame)
capture a piece in a board-game
scoop out
hand-net (used by women)
fat and rounded
very high (of mangroves or waves); such high
mangrove or wave
imḅokó
imḅókoo
n.
a.
piece of wood for cracking kernels
dull and stupid
tp
fr
fr
fr
fr
bp
fr
ga
133
Ximenia americana
(idiom) lit. "beat
kernel"
e.g. ímburu ángala
‘tall mangroves’;
ímburu ó ̣nụngọ
‘high waves’
imeme
ḅara-ímeme
ḅụọ-imeme
ịtíla-imeme
̣
kụró ̣nama-imeme
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
imení
imení-imeni
odu-ímeni
ímgba
imgba
imgba-imgba
imgbapẹlẹ
imgbálúu
imgbálu-imgbálu
imgbáluimgbálumọ
ímgbe
imgbémọ
imgbe
imgbeké
imgbékée
imgbékéemọ
imgbékéemọ
imgbekú
n.
a.
n.
n.m.
n.
a.
n.m.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
imgbekumó ̣
aka imgbekú
aka-imgbekú
imgbélée
imgbéléemọ
imgbépele
imgbépelemó ̣
imgbepelemó ̣
imgbepelé
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
imgbérée
imgbéréemọ
imgbésu
a.
adv.
n.
imgbétée
imgbétéemọ
ímgbi
a.
adv.
n.
imgbi
n.
imgbíla
imgbílíi or imgbítíi
imgbíliimọ
imgbókóo
imgbókóomọ
imgboú
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
bp
bp
bp
bp
sh
c
bp
wp
wp
fr
claw; nail
finger nail
toe-nail
agnail; hang-nail
false thistle; shrub sp. with prickles on stem
and leaves
flesh; pulp
fleshy; without bone; pulpy
body
oyster, incl. oyster spat
bone; skeleton
bony; skeletal
heavy knife
look very swelled-up; bumpy; swollen
full of bumps
with bumps
attach; settle
attach on to
club; cudgel
club; cudgel
abnormal; big; claviform
abnormally
blunt; dull; without edge
dullness of point of edge; bluntness; teeth
being set on edge
cause to be dull; blunt; set on edge (of teeth)
set on edge (of teeth)
setting on edge of teeth
big; abnormally big
in an abnormally big way
wander; roam; drift
wanderingly; adrift
cause to wander about or roam
drag up or down in a zigzag fashion (of
canoe)
abnormally large and spread out
in an abnormally and spread-out manner
wine palm (fruit)
big and stout
stoutly
coconut shell cut out in the form of cup and
used in scooping soup, grinding pepper, etc.
big balls of firearms; bomb; e.g.
ms
tp
masquerade type
of thick or swollen irregular form
irregularly
(of nose) stout and narrow
stoutly
woody fibre in root crops like cassava
134
Acanthus montanus
(Acanthaceae) lit.
‘leopard’s claws’
class Gastropoda
Raphia hookeri
Mann & Wendl.
(Palmae)
íkurusí imgbi
‘cannon balls’
imgbúkuu
ímgbukúlu
ímgbukúlusanị
a.
n.m.
n.
imgbúlúu
imgbúlúumọ
imí1
a.
adv.
a.
imí1
imí1
imígha
imígha
imímọ
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
adv.
mịé ̣ imimó ̣
imíyaị
imí2
imingi
imingi
imingi
imingimó ̣
imomí
indá
inde
inde
v.p.
n.pl.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
inde
indemó ̣
indemó ̣ye
n.
v.t.
n.
indí
indi-ákọn
indíḍaḅa
indígbalị
indi-ó ̣lalị
indo1
indo2
n.
indo3
indo3
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
indoḅịḅị
indokụma
indokụma
indokụmamó ̣
indomindi
indomó ̣
indomina nụngala
indorí
indu
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
indu-alagba
n.
am
cr
t
f
ft
ft
ft
bp
(of nose) stout and rounded
tadpole
round pepper
round; spherical (of a solid)
spherically
ample; abundant; many; copious; numerous;
plentiful; superfluous; many; several;
umpteen; a lot of
abound; be plentiful or many
abundance; plenty; superfluity
few; not many; scanty
fewness; scantiness
abundantly; copiously; plentifully;
numerously
multiply; make more
plenty of
compress; squeeze; wring
tree sp.
groan; moan
groan: moan
groaningly; moaningly
exude; ooze; percolate
gum of teeth
of thick consistency
tend to curdle, solidify, coagulate, congeal,
condense
thick consistency (of liquid)
cause or make to curdle or solidify; thicken
thickening (for soup, etc.); coagulant;
coagulator
fish (in general
fisherfolk
fishpond
pisciculture
feast in honour of the deity Ogidíga
projecting arms of cannon
short lines of hook tied on to a long fishingline
breast; udder; dug
suck; draw milk into mouth
fr
nipple; pap; teat; dug
weaning from the mother
be weaned
wean
milk
suckle
sleeper sp. (‘little sleeper)
be weaned
pawpaw; papaya
pp
long petiole or leaf-stalk of pawpaw
bf
f
135
Capsicum sp.
(Solanaceae)
(n.m. when living)
cf. ḅiótugu
(lit. "breast water")
family Eleotridae
Carica papaya
(Carocaceae)
indúkúu
indúkúu
indúkúumọ
indúlúu
indúlúu
indúlúumọ
indúrúu
indúrúu
indúrúu
indúrúumọ
íne
ine
inegha
inémọ
inémọ
ineyọ
ọmó ̣ụn iné
ọmó ̣ụn-iné
inein
inein-esí
ineinkaramọ
inein-ọndé ̣
ineghá
ineghaḅara
inengi
inengi
inengi
inengiḅọ
inengimó ̣
íngba
ingelenge
ingólingóli
ingóló
ingólóo
ingólóomọ
ingu1
ingu ḅou
inguḅouḍiri
ingu2
iní
inikíti
in-ín
inína
inína
ínjirí
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
v.aux
.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
num.
num.
a.
num.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
excl.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
corpulent; fat
become fat or corpulent
corpulently
corpulent; fat
corpulently
corpulent; bulky
corpulent; fat
corpulently
mother (used in address)
be able to; afford (price); be competent to
not to be able to
endure; forbear
endurance; forbearance
physical and mental ability; sufficient power
fast; go without food
fast(ing)
four
eighty
fourth; fourthly
one thousand six hundred
too much
p
f
dc
c
mi
cl
excess
deaf;
become deaf
deafness
deaf (person)
(see under ḅaraineghá)
(pl. inengi-ongu)
deafen; stun
‘oyster’, incl. oyster spat
dance step; hence ingelenge ḅá
minnow found in lakes and ponds
dogwhelk
whelk-shaped (of head)
in a whelk-shaped manner
pipe for smoking tobacco
smoke tobacco pipe
tobacco
flue in ships and launches
smell; discern by smell; scent; sniff; inhale;
wind
small drum accompaniment
yes
hesitate over one to commence something
hesitation
real India cloth
136
class Gastropoda
Nucella lapillus
same as alili
<English India
ínki
n.
ínki ki
inme-íngara
̣
inmó
inmó-inmo
inmó-inmomọ
inmo-íngara
̣
inmó paga
inmó pagamọ
inmópagamọye
inomó ̣
inomó ̣
Inomó ̣suoḅa
ínsisi
inwán
ínye
ínyo
ípein
ipeín
ipésáa
ipétáa
ípi
ipirí
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.f.
n.
n.
excl.
excl.
n.
n.
a.
a.
n.
n.
ipiriatugu
n.
tp
ípiriya
ipóróo
ipóróomọ
ípu1
ípu2
ipúkein
n.m.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
b
íre1
íre2
v.i.
v.t.
irékáa
irí1
irí1
írigha írigha
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.p
.
v.t.
v.i.
&
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
irimó1̣
irí2
irí2
irimó2̣
kọrị irimó ̣
irí2
irígirígi
irígirígi
v.i.
a.
h
h
pp
t
go
fr
fr
ink; soot; tattoo; indelible patterns made on
the body by inserting pigments in punctures
cut tattoo marks
lichen
sweat; perspiration
sweaty
sweatily
lichen
sweat; perspire; exude sweat
cause to sweat
something that causes sweat
cheat; defraud; fraud; swindle; trick
trick; swindle; fraud; cheat
the deity of cheating
hinge
prominent ocular bone
yes
yes
raffia fibre
ring of hands of plantain or banana
broad; wide
broad; wide and flat; splay (of foot)
see ípu
palm with sweet-smelling fruits;
rootlike suckers of the above palm, useful for
weaving screens
bird sp.
littery; in a state of untidiness
in a disorderly state
very small calabash
fruit sp.
fruits of (and usually the tree)
<English ink
cf. inmo-íngara
̣
cf. inme-íngara
̣
or inmó tụa
<English hinge)
Podoccoccus
barteri Mann &
Wendl. (Palmae)
(also ípi)
Saxoglottis
gabunensis
die (idiomatic)
call name of something (person, etc.) fondly
or for protection
long and big
dry up; evaporate
evaporation
unmistakably
cause to dry up
A. be astray; be lost; miss (road); err; mistake
aberrance; aberration
lead astray; trick
lead astray; mislead
B. Following another verb it is equivalent to
English mis-; e.g.
blunder; move blindly; stumble on or along
aberrant; straying from moral standard
137
pẹlẹ irí ‘misjudge;
cut crookedly’
irígirígimọ
iróko
adv.
n.
irú1
n.
irú sụọ
irú2
v.p.
n.
irúḅẹlẹmọ
n.
irú ḍu
irú koromọ prí ̣
irú kọrí ̣
irúkọrí ̣
irútugu
kụrọ-irú
mẹnịmẹnị-íru
lọkọ-irú
iruo
iruo sou
iruosou
iruo soumọ
irusí
irusí
isegí
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
n.
isein (or isen)
isen-esí
iseinkaramọ
isenáịn
isenáịntoi
isen-ọndẹ
Iselema
isene
ísene-ogidi
iseregu
num.
num.
a.
num.
num.
num.
a. &
n.
n.
n.
n.
isi
v.t.
isi-iru
n.
t
fr
dk
r
bf
fo
blunderingly
tree sp.; iroko
caramel; the colour which a wounded sugar
cane turns into
grow brown and caramel-like (of sugar cane)
ale; liquor; wine; any drink to which no
specific name is given
fruit which, when eaten, sweetens anything
that is eaten afterwards
present wine according to custom at funeral
pour libation or drink offering to (something)
be drunk; intoxicated
tipsy; intoxicated; drunk
dregs or lees of wine
strong drink; alcohol
soft drink
soft drink
fame; reputation
be famed for
famous; celebrated; renowned
make famous
procrastinate; be dilatory
procrastination; dilatoriness
crocodile spp.
nine
one hundred and eighty
ninth; ninthly
nine (in game of agú ̣ḅa)
ten (following nine) at end of game
three thousand six hundred
pertaining to the Warri or Itsekiri people;
Warri
blood from nose
sacrificial knife
fufu from a Urhobo town called Iseregu
blow; send strong air-current from mouth or
an opening of an engine, etc.; spout; issue
forcibly in a jet
dk
wine from oil palm used in preparation of
native medicine
138
also recorded as
iroko. Milicia
excelsa (Welw.)
C.C. Berg. <
Yoruba?
N ile crocodile,
Crocodylus
niloticus, and
slender-snouted
crocodile, C.
cataphractus (=
segí). cf. igére1
See under
akpú ̣nkọrọ
e.g. fụla ékị
̣ isi
‘blow with spittle’;
kumu ékị
̣ isi ‘blow
with chewed
medicine on place
of pain’ (as external
treatment of pain)
isiwarị
n.
r
house or apartment in which special course of
native treatment is taken in seclusion by a
patient
take special course of native treatment in
seclusion
dwarf crocodile, ‘alligator’
isiwarị sụọ
v.p.
isiḅiri
n.m.
isikí
Isobo
Isoboḅọ
isondu
adv.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
et
et
too much
pertaining to the Urhobo tribe
Urhobo person
n.m.
f
salt obtained by filtration of or lixiviating
mangrove root ash and evaporating the filtrate
small fry of fish (in general?)
isongu
ịndá-isongu
n.m.
f
anchovy
isudu
n.
tp
isúlúu
ite
íte
iti1
a.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
iti2
itiká
itiká
itikamó ̣
itika-opuro
itita
ḅụọ-itita
itítáa
ítoróro
itorú
itorú gben
n.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
tr
itorúgben
itoru-ítoru
ítorú
itú
n.
a.
n.m.
n.
b
a
empty bunch of oil palm from which all the
fruits have been removed: e.g: lụgụ-ísudu
snouted (of mouth)
mat, coarser than étẹrẹ
̣
lessen; diminish
dry out liquid with cloth, etc.; dab; press but
not rub (surface) with sponge or soft material
novice in game (slang)
damp; moist; slightly wet
become damp, moist, etc.
dampen; moisten
lobster
trotter
neat’s foot; leg of beef
deformed like trotter of animal
sweet; nice; enjoyable; interesting thing
chalk; limestone
throw chalk at someone (by selected
traditional priestesses) as sign of absolution
from defilement; undergo such act
the above act
chalky
pink-backed pelican
roof; upper covering of building: e.g.
itú gbein
itú kasị
itú teri
itúteriyé
itu
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
itumọndị-egele
n.
he
c
a
a
a
lay thatches on roof; thatch a roof
complete roof work of house
ridge a roof
ridging
age-grade; group; batch; set; band; gang;
flock; herd; host; large number
sociable or gregarious birds
139
Osteolaemus
tetraspi (= sibiri)
̣̣
cf. iḅelúḅelu, ịndáisongu
Engraulis
encrasicolus
Pelicanus rufescens
warị-ítu ‘roof of
house’
lit. "sew roof";
lit. "nail roof";
lit. "cover roof";
akáma-itu swarm
of bees; egéle-itu
flight of birds; indiítu shoal; crowd;
school; kịmị-itu
company;
congregation;
crowd; flock;
multitude; troupe
(of people); namaitu flock; herd
(animals); ofoni-itu
flight, flock (of
birds); ovin-itu
herd of cattle; youítu army; troop
ituḅu
ítuḅurú
n.
n.m.
ituḅuru
itúka
ituka
obiri-ítuka
ituku
itukulụgụ
itukulụgụ
ivángúu
ivívíi
ivuranga
iwá
iwiri
iwó
n.
n.
n.
n.
a. &
n.
n.
m.
a.
a.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
iwó
v.t.
iwó
iwó
iwódụ
iwódụ
iwómọ
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
iwomó ̣
v.t.
iyáa
iyamó ̣
excl.
v.t.
iyée
excl.
f
cr
t
bp
tp
t
sh
log of wood; block
fish sp.; flagfin mojarras
round yam
tree sp. and its fruits
hair; wool
brownish pubic hairs on children
thick skinned or pulpy (palm fruit)
palm fruit with pulpy flesh
oil palm tree with pulpy fruits
broad and with wide nostrils(of nose)
blubber-lipped(of mouth)
thicket; shrub sp.
game of cards
wise or clever person
A. ascend; climb; go or come up; rise; slope
upwards; rise in rank; rise in pitch (of sound);
mount; soar; grow upwards
B. wake (someone) from sleep; arouse;
awaken; e.g.
C. come out of water
ascent; ascension
north; up-river
northern; northerly; upper
upwards; in upward direction: e.g.
turn up (wick in lamp); make (voice) louder
or shriller; shrug; raise (shoulders); sniff;
draw air in audibly through nose; e.g. niní
iwomọ
answer to salutation; oh no!; oh, all right!
push up material from a hole (as crab, rat,
rodent, etc.)
exclamation expressing tiredness or other
confused emotion
140
Eucinostomus
melanopterus
cf. pẹgẹyaí ̣
munú ghọ iwó
‘arouse from sleep’
dọgú ̣ or wagí ̣
iwomó ̣ ‘pull or turn
towards’
N.
ị́
ị
ịbá1
ịbá fị
ịbá2
pron.
pron.
n.
v.p.
n.
ịba-ịba
ịba-ịbamọ
ịbabá
ịbara
ịbó ̣lị
Nbó ̣rọ
Nbó ̣rọ
Nḅaní1̣
Nḅaní1̣
ịḅaní2̣
ịḅaní2̣
ịḅẹlẹkị
ịḅẹlẹkịfá
oḅori-ịḅẹlẹkị
ịḅọ
ịḅó ̣ḅọ
íḅọló
̣
̣
ịḅụḅụ
ịḅụgú ̣
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
p.n.
a.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
n.
pron.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
ịdẹgé ̣
n.m.
f
object case of I (á); me; my
you; your; thee; thou; thy;
bribe; bribery
take a bribe; practise bribery
batch; quantity or number of anything coming
at once or treated as a set; part; section
sectional
sectionally
piece of wood for fastening door; latch bar
buttress roots; branches
arched
Ibenọ in Eket
pertaining to the Ibenọ people
Iḅanị, Bonny people
pertaining to the people of Bonny
splash (of fish); spatter; splurge
splash
fat; grease
fatless
medicinal plant
unspecified person; "the person"
discharge, mucus or film, in the eye
coral bead
young palm tree with growths on stem
depression on the ground for playing ikosó; a
hole for land crab
mullet in general
ịdẹgé-ịyagụ
̣
n.
f
small fry of mullet
abaraká-ịdẹgé ̣
akú ̣rọ-ịdẹgé ̣
ḅou-ídẹgẹ
̣
gbulu-ịdẹgẹ
ịdó1̣
ịdó2̣
ịdọgí ̣
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
f
f
f
f
ịdó ̣gịị
ịdó ̣gịịmọ
ịdọnị
a.
adv.
n.
ịfárú ̣ụ
ịfárú ̣ụ
a.
v.i.
mullet sp.
mullet sp.
fish sp.; barbel
mullet sp.
woven rope; twine
prehensile claw of land crab; chela
poisonous plant, the leaves of which are used
in preparation of local rat-poison
black; blackish
blackishly
fish sticks; weir; enclosure of stakes set in
stream as trap for fish
distended; dilated
distend; swell out; dilate
tp
et
et
et
et
h
tp
fp
h
co
fg
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2nd pers. sing.;
(lit. "eat bribe");
family Mugilidae.
cf. abaraká,
abaraká-ịdẹgé,̣
akú ̣rọ,̣ akú ̣rọịdẹgé,̣ ḅoú-ịdẹgẹ
gbulu, gbuluịdẹgẹ, mó ̣ngịnị,
ó ̣zọló ̣lị
family Mugilidae.
cf. ịyagụ
ịfú ̣fọlị1
ịfú ̣fọlị2
ịfú ̣kú ̣ụ
n.
a.
n.m.
v.t.
&
v.i.
n.
n.m.
a.
ịfụkú ̣
v.i.
ịfúngọị
ịfụngọị
ịfụngọị-ịkara
abadí-ịfụngọị
̣
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
f
sf
sf
sf
ịga1
ịga2
n.
n.
v
Ngabó
Ngabóḅọ
a.
n.m.f
.
a.
adv.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
p.n.
et
et
thread obtained from banana or plantain stem
shipworm or teredo
extremely narrow (of space between two
walls, etc.)
reach end of making progress (in trade or
growth)
‘mussel’
oyster
oyster shell
whitish soft-shelled type of bivalve shell-fish
found in hursts; clam
bush cane-rattan palm species
woven ropes in general used for climbing
palms (some with loop at each end)
pertaining to the Urhobos
Urhobo person
et
et
ridgy (of skin disease like yaws)
in a ridgy or raised manner
pertaining to the Igala people
Igala person
ịfịán
ịfífịn
̣
ịfíṇ 1
ịfíṇ
ịgádíị̣
ịgádíịmọ
̣
Ngárá
Ngáraḅó ̣
ịgáran’obiri
ịgaragaraḅá
ígẹré
̣
̣
ígịbú
̣
̣
Ígịbụ
Ógbo
̣
ígịbú
̣
̣ tụa
ịgba1
ịgba ḅọgọ
ịgba mangị
ịgba2
ịgbapiri
ịgba
ịgbá-ịgba
kọngó ̣-ịgba or
pọgó ̣-ịgba
ịgbaná
ịgbaní ̣
ịgbaníạ
ịgbaníạ
ịgbaníaye
̣
ịgbaráịgbaraị
ịgbó ̣
ịgbó ̣fọrọkọ
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
v.i.
&
v.t.
v.i.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
hg
c
c
da
t
dc
dc
dc
bp
bp
ap
fg
trap
very small; tiny (of nose)
hermit crab
blow nose to clear mucus
large type of dog first introduced from Igala
thorn; thorny tree sp.
courting (of man or woman)
waist movement during coition
popular dance club specializing in waist
movement (= Okuku)
make such waist movement
line of masquerade dance
round off such a line
dance in such a line
bush ropes and tangles
jungle
sinew; tendon
sinewy
jugular veins of the neck or throat region
horn of an animal
contend (of child), strive, fight for a thing;
insist, press; dwell long; make a stand
be in rivalry; argue
contention; strife; controversy; dispute
point contended for in argument
cracked; full of cracks
net in general
open-work singlet
142
class Bivalvia
Ostrea edulis
(cf. Kaḅó)
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
fg
Njó ̣fụ
Njọn’ósungbo
ịjú ̣jú ̣ụ
ịkagị1
ịkagị-ịkagị
ịkagịsụọtó ̣
ịkagị2
ịkagịḅara
ịkagịḅuru
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.f.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
p.n.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
a.
n.m.
a.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
r
cl
h
salt made from mangrove wood ash
Njọ tribal mark on ridge of nose in olden days
snouted
weevil; insect damaging stored grain
weevily
weevilled
tortoise; cunning person
beautifully woven shoulder cloth; sash
yam sp.
ịkaká
n.
pp
corms or seedlings esp. of cocoyam
ịkalị1
ịkalị2
ḅara-íkalị
̣
ḅụọ-ịkalị
ịkará
ịkaraín,
̣ ịkịraíṇ
ịkaraín,
̣ ịkịraíṇ
ịkaraín-di
̣
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
ịkaraín-ịyọrọḅọ
̣
ịkaraká1
n.f.
n.
ịgbó ̣ fụngọ
ịgbó ̣ gbemọ
afarụ-ịgbọ
fụngó ̣-ịgbọ
gbemó ̣-ịgbọ
ikerere-ịgbọ
imbi-ịgbọ
ịdẹgé-ịgbọ
̣
kalá-ịgbọ
kigbo-ịgbọ
opu-ígbọ
̣
susu-ígbọ
̣
ịgbụrụ
ịgịán1
ịgịán2
ịgílaị
̣
ịgụá
ịgụá
ịgụára or igụáḅọ
ịjábáa, ịzábaa
ịjagba
asú ̣n-ịjagba
famú ̣-ịjagba
ịjáka
tọrụ-íjaka
̣
Njó ̣
Njó ̣
Njó ̣ḅọ
ga
bm
bp
bp
et
et
et
bm
i
bp
bp
bp
c
p
c
fish with seine
throw or cast net
casting net for afarụ
seine; drag-net
casting net in general
casting net for ikerere
hand-net in general
casting net for ịdẹgé ̣
medium-sized hand-net
casting net for kigbo
biggest size of hand-net
hand-net for shrimps
line, procession (of people)
flywheel of machine
native draughts
scar in the pupil of eye
make love
concubinage
concubine
spread out (of toes); sprawled
whip; cane; ferule
horse-whip
punishment
eye-lashes; cilia
eye-lash(es)
Njọ tribe
pertaining to the Njọ tribe
Njọ person
fork in stick; king or queen post
wrist or ankle bone
wrist bone
ankle bone
shell (especially of periwinkle etc.)
virgin; undefiled
virginhood; virginity
primiparous birth; bearing a child for the first
time
virgin
shell (esp. of fruits of raffia palm and of
oyster, which easily crumble); it is loosely
used for ịkará
143
(see isondu)
Dioscorea sp.
(Dioscoreaceae)
e.g. ikereḅurúịkaka
e.g. ịsẹmị-ịkara
ịkaraká2
ịkarakádemọye
ịkarakáwarị
ịkásị
amanyanaḅọ-ịkasị
ḅéke-ịkasị
ḍigi-ịkasị
ikegima-ịkasị
sẹrérẹ-ịkasị
̣
ịkatá
ịkatá nanga
ịkẹgẹ1
ịkẹgẹpagara
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
ịkẹgẹpegele
ịkẹgẹ2
tọrụ-íkẹgẹ
̣
ịkẹgẹ3
ịkẹgẹ4
di-íkẹgẹ
̣
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
di-íkẹgẹ
nọ
̣
di-íkẹgẹnọ
̣
ịkị
ịkịán
ịkịó ̣
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
tr
e
ịkịó ̣-eme
ịkịó ̣fa
ịkịó ̣tụa
a.
a.
a.
e
e
e
ịkịrị
ịkịrịmó ̣
ịkírịkáa
̣
ịkírịkáamọ
̣
ịkịtaká
kịmị-ịkịtaka
ịkọ
ịkọgịḅá
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
fg
fg
ịkó ̣gíị̣
ịkọlí ̣
ịkọlị-íkọlị
̣
ịkọlíkọlimọ
̣
ịkọlị
ịkó ̣lịkó ̣ọ
íkọlọgọ
̣
a.
n.
a.
adv.
n.m.
a.
n.
ịkó ̣nị
v.t.
i
h
fg
fg
po
po
b
bp
bp
c
bp
c
termite; white ant
castor-oil plant
Ricninus communis
anthill
bench; seat; chair
throne
English chair
cane chair
steel chair
deck or easy-chair
small basket-like fish trap
fish with ịkatá
native pot for grinding snuff
piece of broken native pot; broken pieces of
concrete
bird sp.; swallow
Hirundo spp.
socket of the eye
eye socket
shell of ịfụngọị
in
uterus or womb in its enlarged condition
immediately following childbirth
have uteritis or pain in the womb after
childbirth
uteritis
dirt; grime; soot ingrained in the skin
stick on which sacrifice is placed
mind; seat of consciousness; thought; volition
and feeling; intellectual power; direction of
thoughts or desires; sense; (loosely) heart;
wile; trick; cunning procedure; artifice;
manoeuvre
sensible
senseless; foolish
subtle; clever; crafty; cunning; artful;
ingenious; sensible; wily; trickish; sagacious;
seeming to reason or deliberate (of animals)
sear
cause to sear; cauterize
short (of stature)
in a short way
host; large number
crowd; multitude, large number (of people)
woven kind of big container for trapping fish
round frame (usually of rattan palm) for fixing
hand-net on to for fishing
bent like a bow
corner; angle
angular; full of bends and corners
angularly
water crab in general
having a long occiput
display by members of a society or league of
chiefs who have beheaded people at war
give love to someone before it is asked
144
ịkọnị
ịkọnị
ịkọnị-obi
ịkọrọ1
ịkọrọ2
v.i.
a.
n.
n.
n.
d
ịkó ̣só ̣ọ
ịkpaḅarịḅá
ịkpaḅarịḅá sụọ
ịkpáịkpáị
ịkpakpa
a.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.pl.
ịkpakpa
ịkpakpa tụa
n.
v.p.
ịkpakpanáḅarána
ịkpakpa-na-ḅarána
ịkpákụ
n.
n.m.
cl
cl
n.
tp
ịkpakụ
v.i.
ịkpakụmó ̣
ịkpakụté ̣
ịkpálaị
ịkpalakpá
v.t.
a.
n.
n.
ịkpálakpáa
ịkpalị1
ịkpalị fanga
ịkpalị2
ịkpalịfá
ịkpalịfa-óvin
ịkpan1
ịkpan2
ịkpangí ̣
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
ịkpangị-íkpangị
̣
ịkpasị
ịkpataká
a.
n.
n.
ịkpịrí ̣
1
ịkpịrị-íkpịrị
̣
ịkpú ̣
n.
a.
n.
d
d
bp
pọgọ-íkpụ
̣
ịkpú2̣
n.
n.
bp
tp
ịkpú ̣kụ
ịkpụkụ
n.m.
n.
i
tp
d
tr
c
mi
ap
ap
ap
da
wp
grow lupus
lupoid; lupous
lupus; ulcerous disease of skin
long stick used in climbing raffia wine palm
horn used in pouring libation during
traditional ceremonies
emaciated; lean; gaunt
high degree of dryness
become very dry
lobster sp.
A. Pair of flat pieces of wood used as musical
accompaniment; clappers, concussionplaques
B. applause (by clapping)
clap hands; applaud by striking hands or the
clappers together loudly
print cloth
old cloth
fresh prop-root of stunted type of mangrove
cut for wood
become dry and shrivelled; wither; fade; dry;
droop; lose freshness and vigour
make dry, or wither
dry or dried
anklet
animal’s feet used as food; trotters (of sheep,
pigs)
long-legged; lanky
plait; entwined hair; braid
braid; plait, etc.
horn of an animal
hornless; poll
poll-cattle
cinder; fire brand
poisoned arrows
bough; branch; twig (of tree); branch;
junction, tributary (of river, road, family)
branchy; with many branches
handle of wooden spoon
bier; woven cagelike material used as coffin
in olden days, (now chiefly used for
ceremonial burials only)
scabies; mange; itch
scabby; mangy
gizzard; crop; larynx; voice-box; Adam’s
apple
Adam’s apple
growing point of coconut or oil palm;
cabbage; terminal bud of banana or plantain
coconut beetle
node; knot in wood; base of a branch;
protuberance covered with bark on trunk or at
root of tree; gnarl
145
ịkpụkụ-í`kpụkụ
ịkpụkụ3
a.
n.
pọgọ-íkpụkụ
̣
ịkpụkụ4
ḅara-íkpụkụ
̣
ḅụọ-ịkpụkụ
ịkpụngụ
ịkpụngú ̣bun
ịkú ̣
ịkú ̣díị̣
ịkú ̣lị
ịkú ̣rịkú ̣rị
ịkú ̣rịkú ̣rịmọ
ịkụrụḅa
ịkụtị
ḅara-íkụtị
̣
ḅụọ-ịkụtị
ịkú ̣tíị̣
ịkụtú ̣kụtụ
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.m.
tp
bp
bp
bp
bp
f
knotty; gnarled
wen; more or less permanent tumour of
benign character on scalp or other part of
body
goitre; Derbyshire-neck
elbow or knee joints
elbow
knee
knob; proboscis; trunk (of elephant)
long-horn beetle
between the legs
clawed
in vain
scraggy
scraggily
iron-wood;
claw or bent fingers or toes
clawed fingers
bent toes
clawed
small specimen of horse mackerel
ịla1
ḍíḅi-ịla
ịla2
ịla3
n.
n.
n.
n.
h
t
cr
bead
weed with beadlike seed
fig tree
Job’s tears
ịlịa
ịló ̣
ịló ̣ koromọ
ịló ̣tọ
n.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
ịlú ̣lú ̣ụ
ịlú ̣lụ2ụmọ
ịmá
ịmá sụọ
ịmáraịn
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.
bm
ịmbásị
n.
pp
ịmbasị
ịmbasị
ịmbí ̣
v.t.
adv.
n.m.
m
broomstick from palm frond stick
siege; besieging
lay siege to; besiege
(wetness) be so wet as to shed drops; dripping
wet; very wet
heavy; of great weight; laden with
heavily
matter; pus
fester; gather pus
wale or weal; ridge raised on flesh by stroke
of rod or whip
carpel or section into which a pistil cell of
fruit is divided
do (something) deliberately due to perversity
wilfully; deliberately; perversely
red river-hog
ịmbị-áfụlaḅa
ịmbị-akásiko,
n.
n.m.
fr
b
fruit of tree much relished by red river-hog
bird sp.; sunbird
ịmbị-akásọgị
n.m.
b
bird sp.; sunbird
akatolútẹ ịmbị
n.p.
m
red river-hog with projecting husks [teeth?]
bm
d
bm
bm
bm
ap
i
he
146
see ịmọ
[Caranx spp.?]
family Carangidae
cf. mọrọn, pélia
Coix lachryma-jobi
(Gramineae)
See also ọgá
Potamochoerus
porcus
cf.
akatolútẹ ịmbị
family
N ectariniidae (cf.
ịsẹrẹ; ọtị)
family
N ectariniidae (cf.
ịsẹrẹ; ọtị)
Potamochoerus
porcus. Cf. ịmbí ̣
Zea mays
(Gramineae)
ịmbịakpá
n.
cr
corn; maize
ịmbịakpáfịye
ị`mbílị́ ị̣
ịmbírịmbí
rị̣
̣
ịmbírịmbí
rịmọ
̣
̣
ịmbítị̣
n.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
he
ịmbítị́ ị̣
ịmbítị́ ịmọ
̣
ịmbítịkí
̣ ị̣
et
et
of or pertaining to the Ibibio tribe or Ibibio
Ibibio person
ịmgbalakpá
a.
adv.
a. &
v.i.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
spoon
fat and short
trivial; trifling; of small value
trivially; triflingly
grimace; make wry face; lour; frown; scowl;
gloom
grim; unmirthful
grimly; unmirthfully
same as above
go
ịmgbálú ̣ụ
ịmgbálú ̣ụ
ịmgbálú ̣ụmọ
ịmgbará
ịmgbéké
̣ ẹ̣
ịmgbéké
̣ ẹmọ
̣
ịmgbélé
̣ ẹ̣
ịmgbélé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
ịmgbésẹ
̣
ịmgbésẹmọ
̣
ịmgbẹsé ̣
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
ịmgbẹségbasa
̣
n.
ịmgbẹsẹmó ̣
ịmgbẹsétịn
̣
ịmgbíkpí
̣ ị̣
v.t.
n.
a.
ịmgbíkpí
̣ ịmọ
̣
ịmgbịpalị
ịmgbọ1
adv.
n.
n.
small calabash for storing gun-powder;
powder flask; (slang) scrotum
slightly swollen
swell slightly
in a slightly swollen manner
ammunition
small; smallish (of head)
smallishly
same as preceding
in a smallish way
lie across
crosswise
cross; place crosswise; (of obstacle) go across
(river, sea, road); thwart
cross-stick for weaving net which gives the
mesh
cause to put across
cross
stumpy; thickset; stocky; of small height or
length in proportion to girth
stumpily; stockily
tight pants or lower underwear
grist; size or thickness of yarn or rope:
ịmgbọ2
ḅió-ịmgbọ
ịmgbọị
n.
n.
n.
ịmgbú ̣
arụ-ịmgbụ
ḅụọ-ịmgbụ
ọbụ-ímgbụ
̣
ịmgbú ̣lú ̣ụ
ịmgbú ̣lú ̣ụmọ
ịmgbụrụ
ịmgbú ̣tụ
ịmgbú ̣tụ-ọbụ
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
n.
Nmḅọkọ
Nmḅọkọbọ
wp
dr
pp
bo
bp
bp
stone (of stone fruit); seed; grain; nut
heartwood; core
improvised rope obtained from split leaf of
young raffia vinifera palm
hump; hunch; hunchback
keel of boat
shin of leg
hunch of back
small; not large (of lump, mass)
smallishly
corrugation; line
recoil or shrink; grow humpy
humpback or hunchback
147
e.g. éri-ịmgbọ
‘thickness of
thread’
ịmgbú ̣tú ̣ụ
ịmgbú ̣tú ̣ụmọ
ịmọ
a.
adv.
n.
ịmó ̣rọịn
ịmparaḅọ
ịmparafịrị
ịmụkú ̣
ịmú ̣kú ̣ụ
ịmú ̣kú ̣ụmọ
ịmụnụmụnụ
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
c
ịmụsú ̣
ịná
ịna
ínaịn
̣
ịnaịn
índa
̣
n.
poss.
poss.
n.
n.
int.
tp
ịndá
n.m.
f
ịndáḅara
n.m.
f
fish sp.; royal threadfin (‘young shiny nose’;
‘adult shiny nose’)
giant African threadfin; 6ft. and over
ịndáḅutu
n.m.
f
lesser African threadfin
ịndá eḅutu
ịnda-ímeni
n.
n.
f
h
ịnda-ísongu
n.m.
f
(‘golden threadfish or shiny nose’)
plant sp. with soft and tasty wood used for
chop-stick
fish sp., European anchovy
ịndá-isongu
n.m.
f
fish sp., European anchovy
ịndamanga
n.
ịndányingi
índaị
̣
n.m.
n.
ịndálaị
ịndíkáa
̣
ịndụ
ịndụlụ
ịndụlú ̣mọ
n.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
ịndụlụ-ọbụ
ịndú ̣lú ̣ụ
ịndú ̣lú ̣ụmọ
n.
a.
adv.
tp
f
p
humpy; hunchy
with a hump
core; heartwood; the hardest part of a tree,
usually impregnated with black resinous
matter; ironwood; species of mangrove;
periwinkle with smooth shell;
carrier; porter; drudge; servile worker; slave
drudgery
stinginess; churlishness
stingy; churlish; niggardly
churlishly; etc.
middle folding leaves of oil palm tree torn in
shreds, used as part of war dress, in traditional
shrines, or used singly for tying
male flower of oil-palm
my, 1st pers. plural;
your , 2nd pers. plural;
my own; mine; belonging to me
your own; yours; belonging to you (sg.)
how many? (followed by a noun or sentence):
oblique or asquint lock; squint, strabismus
(when eye turns inward or outward it is
referred to as cross-eyed strabismus and walleyed strabismus respectively)
threadfin sp.
how many (used as a subject):
wire
very black
tarry; remain; wait for
recoil; grow humpy
hump or hunch up (back) wilfully for a
moment
humpback; hunchback
humpy; hunchy
with a hump
148
see ịkụrụḅa
e.g. ịmó ̣rọịn ịsẹmị
e.g. índa
ḅara
̣
‘how many hands?’
Pentanemus
quinquarius
Polydactilis
quadrifilis
Galeoides
decadactylus
Engraulis
encrasicolus cf.
isongu
Engraulis
encrasicolus cf.
isongu
family Polynemidae
e.g. índaị
ị wọ ékị?
̣
̣
‘how many did you
take?’; máịn na
traị na índaị?
‘2 +
̣
3, how many?’
ịngarụ
ịngị
ịngịasí ̣
ịngịasítịḅị
̣
ịngịlímọ
̣
ịngímọ
̣
n.
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
adv.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
ịngịmó ̣
ịngịrị
ịngịrị
ịngịrímọ
̣
ịngịrịmó ̣
ịngịríngị
̣
ịngọ
ịngọ kọn
ịngú ̣
ịngụa
ịngụịngú ̣
ịngụịngú ̣
ịngụịngú ̣
ịngụịngú ̣mọ
íngụó
̣
̣
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
ịngú ̣síị́ ̣
ịngú ̣sịịmọ
ịní ̣
ịnị
ịnịa, ịnịya
ịníḅịḅịnátẹrẹ
íḅ
̣
̣ áa
ịnkwọ
ịníya
̣
ịnkpọpị
ịnọ
ịnọ lá
ịnọ ékị
̣ lamó
ịntakị
ịntẹ
ịnụ
ịnụḅuru
ịnú ̣ ḅụọ
ínwaịn
̣
a.
adv.
poss.
poss.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.m.
conj.
a.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
ínwaịn-ḅịtẹ
̣
ịnwaịnmó ̣
n.
v.t.
ịngará
ịngará-ịngara
inme-íngara
̣
ịngaradọ
ịngará fị
ịngaráfị
ịngaráfị
ịngaráfịḅọ
d
d
h
d
scabies; crawcraw
scabious; scabby
lichen
smallpox; variola
make mischief
cheating tendency; mischievous conduct
mischievous
mischief-maker
c
periwinkle sp. with spiked shell
thoroughly
spoon
spoonful
tarry; wait; persist
exert force to excrete or deliver foetus; bear
down
push or bear down
scream; screech
scream; screech
screeching
cause to screech, etc.
char (completely)
riches; wealth; prosperity
acquire, possess, win (wealth or prosperity)
frog sp.
hurry up; make haste
touching; affecting; pathetic
be affected or moved in mind
touchingness; affect
touchingly; affectingly
sugar-cane
he
am
cr
wp
ft
k
bm
bm
cl
cr
dr
lean and dejected
dejectedly
1st pers. singular; my, mine
2nd pers. singular; your; thine; thy;
arrow; dart
hairy larva found in dry crayfish
???
my son (archaic)
fathom of cloth tied to fall in front
wound; cut; flaw
sustain or suffer wound
wound
fathom of cloth tied to fall in front
but; and
old (of things)
old, sweet yam
become old and sweet
tie (cloth) round loins:
loincloth
tie (cloth, etc.) on to
149
cf. inmo-íngara
̣
also ịngarụ-ịsẹmị
Saccharum
officinarum
(Gramineae)
= sụka [not in text]
e.g. ḅịtẹ ínwaịn
‘tie
̣
cloth’
p
adult person
ịnwanwán
ịnwanwan
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
ga
g
play in water
sedge with very sharp stem and leaves
ịnwẹnẹ
n.
mi
ịnyaíṇ
n.pl.
ịnyán
v.i.
ịnyánmọ
ịnyanmó ̣
ịnyan
adv.
v.t.
n.
ịnyángị
ịnyanya
ịnyọ1
ịnyọ2
n.
n.pl.
n.
n.
ịnyọkpó ̣
ịnyọ3
ịnyọ ḍọụmó ̣
ịnyọ pélẹ
̣
ịnyọpẹlẹ
ịnyọpélẹ-ikurusi
̣
ịnyọ sara
ịpá
a.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
ípiriya
̣
ịpó ̣ró ̣ọ
n.
a.
ịpó ̣ró ̣ọ
mịé ̣ ịpọró ̣ọmọ
ịpó ̣tó ̣ọ
v.i.
v.p.
a. &
v.i.
v.p.
n.
very small copper bells used for tying on
hands during dances, etc.
crumbs; small shredded fragments (especially
of shrimp)
become restless; yearn; be filled with longing
for or after rest, home, or action
restlessly; yearningly; longingly
cause to become restless
frond of small raffia vinifera palms used for
roofing or walling; dry frond of raffia palms
in general for burning anything
clitoris
roof mats
eczema
man-power; strength; stamina; staying power;
power of endurance; ability
powerful
breath; air taken into and expelled from lungs
take breath; pause; rest
breathe one’s last; die; give up ghost
giving up ghost
first cannon shot fired at the death of a person
breathe
column; body of people, especially following
one another; part or section of a crowd; lobe,
especially of liver or lungs
littery; in a state of untidiness; disorderly
accumulation of odds and ends
litter; look untidy (of objects lying about)
make untidy
(be) ashamed, abashed; disconcerted by
consciousness of guilt
make ashamed; disconcert
seclusion or retirement in fattening house
according to either custom or after child-birth,
accouchement; lying-in; delivery in childbirth
tend woman in child-birth
midwifery; obstetrics
midwife; man-midwife; obstetrician
ḅịté-ịnwaịntẹḅọ
̣
mịé ̣ ịpó ̣tó ̣ọmọ
ịrá
ịrákọrịfịrị
ịrá sụọ
ịrásụọmọ
ịrá tụwẹịn
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
v.p.
ịrátụwẹịn
ịrátụwẹịn
n.
a.
ịrá kọrị
ịrákọrị
ịrákọrịḅọ
tp
bp
he
d
b
midwifery work; obstetrics
be confined for fattening or after childbirth
fatten; seclude in fattening house
present food, etc., to women at childbirth
according to N embe custom, done by the
husband or his representative
such custom of presentation of provisions
with young one; nursing:
150
Scheri sp.
(Cyperaceae)
(plural of ịnyan)
e.g. ịrá ịyọrọḅọ
ịrẹ1
n.
ịrẹ, ẹrẹ2
n.
ịrẹ ékị
̣ tịn
v.p.
ịrẹfá
ịrẹfí(tẹ)
̣
ịrẹná(tẹ)
ịrẹsinyaị
a.
a.
a.
n.pl.
ịrú ̣
ịrú ̣
ịrú ̣mọ
ịrụmó ̣
ịrú ̣tẹịn
ịrú ̣timi-ifie
írụa
̣
ịrú ̣a
ịrụakụra
ịrụapaga-anga or dụ
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.,
adv.
& a.
n.,
adv.
& a.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
n.
ịrụasụọ-anga or dụ
írụdú
̣
̣ụ
ịrụká
ịságụ
ịsalasá1
ịsalasá2
t
sasswood tree
bf
name; nomenclature; word by which
individual person, animal, place or thing is
called
name; give name to; (figuratively) give bad
name to
nameless; anonymous
celebrated; famous
renowned
blood
wt
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
ịsan1
n.
ịsan2
n.
ịsẹmị
ịsẹmị-ịkara
ịmó ̣rọịn-ịsẹmị
n.m.
n.
n.m.
(more idiomatic
than odúai, odúyaị,
puló)
small; not large; not plenty
smallness; paucity
into small pieces
make small; belittle
least; smallest; slightest
infancy; early childhood; babyhood
pinch from anything before actual division
sun; sunshine
dry season
East; Orient; eastern; oriental; eastward;
easterly
West, Occident; Western; occidental;
westward; westerly
f
tp
fg
ịsalị
ịsalị
ịsalịmó ̣
ịsalịmó ̣
ịsamụ
‘nursing mother’;
ịrá nama ‘animal
giving suck’
Erythrophleum
suaveolens (Guill.
& Perr.) Brenan
(LeguminosaeCaesalpinioidae)
fp
c
c
c
be current; prevail (esp. of news)
brass bangle; any imperishable property
fish sp.; characin
spongy roots overhanging a river in which
prawns (opuro) are caught
artificial trap for sp. opuro resembling the
real one
stark; stiff; rigid; not flexible
grow stiff after death
stiffly; rigidly
make stiff; stiffen
fin (of fish; frill (of cloth; a type of woven
cloth with a frilled edge
sponge; native fibrous material used in
filtering palm wine
shred; scrap; fragment; rag; strip, torn or
broken piece; small remains
‘common periwinkle’
periwinkle shell
periwinkle sp.
151
order
Characiformes. cf.
ikolokoló, ọkpaịn
family Littorinidae
(see ịmọrọịn)
ịngarụ-ịsẹmị
ịsẹrẹ
n.m.
n.m.
ísị̣ 1
ísị̣ 1
ísị̣ 2
ịsí ̣
ịsịngí ̣
a.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
ịsísị̣
ịsísịyọ
̣
ịsịsí ̣
v.i.
n.
v.t.
ịsọnọ
ịsọnọwarị
ịsụ
n.m.
n.
n.m.
ịsụḅụ
ịsụlụ
c
b
f
i
i
m
periwinkle sp.
sun-bird
bald; hairless; featherless
lose hair
be cut or cleared
cut, clear for farm, etc.
large kind of ọtíọ,̣ a sea catfish (‘real grown
catfish’; ‘second-stage catfish’; ‘young type
catfish’)
be bruised, be contused
abrasion; contusion; bruise; graze
abrade; scrape off, injure (skin) by violent
rubbing; bruise; contuse; excoriate; graze
ant in general; emmet
ant nest
giant-pouched rat (giant rat) spp.
knife
(be) persistent (of sore) against medicine;
chronic; lingering
make persistent
snouted
fish sp. blackchin tilapia; spotted tilapia;
redbelly tilapia; and other cichlid or tilapiine
fish sp. (‘river tilapia’)
ịsụlụmó ̣
ịsú ̣sú ̣ụ
ịtaḅalá
a.,
v.i.
v.t.
a.
n.m.
f
ịtílạ
n.m.
f
mudskipper
itíla-imeme
̣
ịtítáa
̣
ítorú
̣
n.
a.
n.
b
hangnail
(of teeth) carious; decayed
pink-backed pelican
ịtú1̣
ịtụfụrú ̣
ịtú2̣
ịtụḅụlú ̣
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
c
f
i
very small mangrove crab
fish sp.; snapper sp. which feeds on crabs
insect that bores into canoes
haft; handle; hilt; shaft; tang (of knives,
152
(see ịngarụ)
family
N ectariniidae (cf.
ịmbị-akásiko;
ịmbị-akásọgị; ọtị
Arius sp. = sịngí. ̣
cf. gbengu, nẹgú ̣,
nẹngú ̣
Gambian giantpouched rat
(Gambian giant rat),
Cricetomys
gambianus, Emin’s
giant-pouched rat
(Emin’s giant rat),
C. emini. Also
identified as the
N igerian whitetoothed shrew,
Crocidura nigeriae.
Cf. tụrụ-éke
Sarotheradon
melanotheron
melanotheron;
Tilapia mariae;
Tilapia zillii; and
other family
Cichlidae. cf. adi,
atán, elekéti,
ọkpọtụḅa
Periophthalmus
spp. cf. amgbóko
Pelecamus
rufescens
(= tígarágara)
Lutjanus sp.
ịtú ̣tụ
ịtú ̣tụ-ịtú ̣tụ
ịvịavịá
n.
a.
n.
ịwọfí ̣
ịwọ-indí
ịwọ-ịwọ
ịwọmó ̣
ịwọyaị
ịwákáa
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.pl.
a.
ịwákáamọ
ịwísị̣
ịwịsí ̣
ịwọ
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
ịyá
n.
ịyaḅú ̣
ịyá fị
pron.
v.p.
ịyámọ
ịyamó ̣
adv.
v.t.
ịyágáa
ịyagụ
a.
n.m.
ịyó ̣
v.i.
ịyó ̣
ịyọmó ̣
ịyọrọ
n.
v.t.
a. &
n.
n.f.
v.p.
n.
n.f.
n.
a.
ịyọrọḅọ
ịyọrọ lá
ịyọrọlá
ịyọrọtó ̣gụ
ịzan
ịzú ̣zú ̣ụ
d
f
p
fo
spades, etc.)
caries; decay of teeth; shipworm
carious; decayed
broom made of twigs or dry spadix of flower
cluster or inflorescence of coconut after the
nuts have been picked
premature death
fresh, raw, unsmoked fish
fresh, raw, young
afresh; anew
raw food presented to a deity or juju
conspicuous (of dress); striking to the eye;
attracting notice
conspicuously
be torn off
tear off
crude; fresh; green; new; novel; strange; raw;
unsmoked
agony; affliction; calamity; desperation;
distress; hardship; suffering; torture; misery
unspecified people; they; them, cf. eín
suffer; undergo pain or grief; have trouble; be
in distress
distressingly; agonizingly
afflict; distress with bodily suffering; torture;
inflict bodily pain
(of teeth) serrulate, or serrulated, finely serrate
small fry of fish, esp. mullet
go with favourable tide; go easily and without
quarrel with someone
favourable tide (ebb or flow):
turn (about) to go favourably with tide
female; feminine; any part of a device or
mechanism that bears the lock or socket
woman
attain womanhood or female maturity
attainment of womanhood or female maturity
girl; maiden; an expression of praise
palm kernel oil
having prominent front teeth
J.
jáị1 (also záị)
jáị1 (also záị)
jáịmọ1
jáị2
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
jáịmọ2
jákajáka
adv.
a.
heavy (of rain)
fall heavily
heavily (of rain)
alight (of bird), settle (after flying down from
the air)
aloft; high up
ruffled; shaggy; rough-haired; unkempt;
uncombed
153
e.g. family
Mugilidae. cf.
ịdẹgé-ịyagụ
̣
e.g. ịyó ̣mindi
(pl. ịyọrọ-ongu)
jákajákamọ
mịé ̣ jákajákamọ
jákakáa
adv.
v.p.
a.
jákakáamọ
jákatáa
jákatáamọ
jakí ̣
jákịrị, zákịrị
jákịrịmọ
jála
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
ikegimajala
tịn-jala
jalá
jalá
jálaḅáa
jálaḅáamọ
jalágị
n.
n.
v.t.
jalágịmọ
jalagí ̣
adv.
v.t.
jálaláa
jálaláamọ
jálóo
jálóomọ
jámú ̣ụ
jámú ̣ụmọ
járaráa
jée
jéemọ
jéen
jéenmọ
jélekée
jélekéemọ
jí (also zí)
jimó ̣, zimó ̣
jíge
jíge
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
jígejíge
jígemọ
kiríjíge
kụró ̣jige
jigé
a.
adv.
n.
n.
v.t.
imbi jige
odú jige
jígo
jigó
jígolo
jigorí
jigorí
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
pp
shaggily
ruffle
shaggy; with rough dried-up twigs; bristly;
setaceous
setaceously
shaggy and lying loose (e.g. hair)
shaggily; loosely (of hair)
flower; produce flower
strong and agile, but too thin
in a strong but thin way
comb; toothed strip of horn, metal, ivory,
wood, etc., for dressing or cleaning hair
metal comb
wooden comb
A. comb; draw comb through hair
B. scratch soil for food (as fowl); push away
supine; lying face upward
supinely
be scattered or dispelled; disintegrate;
dissolve (of meeting); resolve; straggle
dispersedly; scatteringly
scatter (things) about; bestrew; dispel;
disperse; dissipate
supine
supinely
supine
supinely
tall; of more than average height
in a tall way
gawky; lanky
open; outspread (of space)
clear; unclouded
without concealment
open; clear; unclouded
sag; have downward bulge or curve in middle
make sag; cause to sag or curve; relax
budge; move; quake
shaking; churning; stir; concussion; quake;
tremor
shaky; quaky
quakingly
earthquake
concussion; shock
bestir; agitate; churn; stir; shake; sift; sieve;
riddle; concuss
sift; sieve; riddle (kernels)
bestir oneself
current; drift
ford; wade
stagger through soft mud; cleave on to anchor
frisky; frolicsome; sportive; playful
caper; frisk; gambol; play pranks
154
tịḅị jalá comb hair’
(cf. gbée)
(see dí)
jigorí
n.
jigorímọ
jíi (also zíi)
adv.
v.i.
jíimọ, zíimọ
jiló
jilómọ
jílóo
jílóo
jílóo
jílóomọ
jimeín
jimeín tụa
jumúu
jumúu
jimúumọ
jimúujimúu
jíne
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
jíne
jínemọ
jiné
jipúu1
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
jipúumọ
jipúu2
adv.
v.i.
Jízos
jịgẹ
jígọrí
̣ ị̣
jígọrí
̣ ịmọ
̣
jílọ́ ̣ọ
jílọ́ ̣ọ
jílọ́ ̣ọ
jílọ́ ̣ọmọ
jímụụ
̣
jímụụ
̣
jímụụmọ
̣
jịmú ̣ụ, zịmú ̣ụ
jịmú ̣ụ, zịmú ̣ụ
jịmú ̣ụmọ
jínyọ,
zínyọ
̣
̣
jínyọ,
zínyọ
̣
̣
jínyọmọ
̣
jínyó
̣ ̣ọ
jínyó
̣ ̣ọ
jínyó
̣ ̣ọmọ
jịpú ̣ụ1
n.m.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
jịpú ̣ụmọ
jịpú ̣ụ2
adv.
v.i.
jíụ̣
v.i.
caper; frisk; gambol; prank; mad frolic; erratic
action
friskingly; in a gambolling way; frolicsomely
fall plentifully (of rope), or limply (of large
snake or human being) in one place
limply; plentifully
twitch; pull with light jerk
with a light jerk or pull
stretchy
stretch out; protrude; be in the way
sticking out; protrusion; being in the way
stretching out; in a drawn manner
extra power
put extra power
jerk (e.g. of fishing-line); tug
jerking (e.g. of fish on hook); tugging
with a jerk or tug
tug repeatedly
struggle for life; be disturbed (by danger; of
many people)
struggle for life
strugglingly
worry (as restless baby worries mother)
zip; light sharp sound, as of bullet passing
through water
with a zip; suddenly
disappear; vanish; be lost; die away from sight
or existence
Jesus
jigger
tubby
in a tubby way
taut (of longer rope); not slack
be taut
tautness
tautly
extra taut (as of rope in tug-of-war)
be extra taut
extra tautly
tug (as fish on line)
tug (as of fish on line)
tugging
be half-slack (of rope)
half-slackness (of rope)
half-slackly
taut (of shorter string)
be taut
tautly
zip; light sharp sound, as of bullet passing
through water
with a zip
to be absent (at a short distance; for a short
time)
feel a sudden chill (e.g. of iced water)
155
(cf. jịmú ̣ụ)
cf. jịpú ̣ụ1
cf. jịpú ̣ụ2
<English
(cf. jínyó
̣ ̣ọ)
(cf. jimúu)
(cf. jílọ́ ̣ọ)
(cf. jipúu 1.)
(cf. jipúu 2.)
jíụ̣
jíụmọ
̣
jókáa
jókáamọ
jóko
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
jókoḅọ
jóngbolóomọ
jóngo
jóo
jóo
jóomọ
jopíi
n.m.f
.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
jopíi
n.
jopíimọ
jóri
jó ̣ị1
adv.
v.i.
a.
jó ̣ịmọ1
jó ̣ị2
jó ̣ịmọ2
jó ̣kụ
jó ̣kụụ
jó ̣kụụmọ
jó ̣kụụyọ
jọlọlíị̣
jọlọlíị̣
jọlọlíị̣
jọlọlíịmọ
̣
jó ̣ró ̣in
jó ̣ró ̣inmọ
jọró ̣ịn
jọró ̣ịn
juáa, zuáa
juáa, zuáa
juáamọ
júgujúgu
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
júgujúgu
júgujúgumọ
jugujugú
n.
adv.
v.t.
jú ̣gụjú ̣gụ
jú ̣gụjú ̣gụ
jú ̣gụjú ̣gụmọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
jóko sụọ
jóngbolóo
sudden sensation of cold (e.g. of liquid)
suddenly chilling
huge and fearsome (esp. of teeth of monsters)
in a huge and monstrous way
animosity; active enmity; lasting hatred; feud;
hostility
enemy; hostile person
to become enemies
tall (as of a monster)
be tall and monstrous
in a huge and monstrous way
jar; quantity contained in it
stare; gaze; look fixedly with eyes wide open
stare; gaze; intent look
intently; staringly (of look)
jump into water feet first; stride away (as of
monster)
jumping into water feet first; striding away (as
of monster)
jumping into water feet first
be difficult to understand
pattering (of rain or water); trickling (of
stream into sea)
patteringly; tricklingly
lie about; spread; litter
lying about untidily
jut; stick out; protrude
protrusive; protruding; sticking out
protrusively
jut; protrusion; crest; projection
straight; without bend
be stretched or straightened
straightness
without bending
tall and slim (as of person)
in a tall slim manner
glide into water
gliding motion into water (as of kingfisher)
dive into water (out of sight)
dive into water (out of sight)
with a dive (out of sight)
splurge; make noisy display or effort in the
hold of the mesh of a net just above water (of
fish
splurge
with a splurge
rinse (mouth); fill mouth with water and swill
vigorously to wash out
make a light splurge or splash
light splurge
with a light splurge
156
(pl. jóko-ongu)
K.
ka
káan
part.
v.i.
káantẹ
kaḅí ̣
a.
n.m.
Kaḅó
p.n.
kaḅú1̣
n.
kaḅú1̣
kaḅú ̣ kọn
kaḅú2̣
v.t.
v.p.
n.
kaḅú ̣ tụa
kádịgíị̣
kádịgíịmọ
̣
kadịgíkadịgị
̣
kadịgíkadịgịmọ
̣
káfịáan, káfịan
káfịáanmọ
kága
v.p.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kaga
kagámọ
v.t.
v.t.
kágị
kágị
kágị
kágịmọ
kagịmó ̣
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
kagí ̣
v.t.
kágo
kagulúkagulu
n.
a.
kagulúkagulumọ
kágulúu
kágulúumọ
kágurúu
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kágurúumọ
adv.
kagụlú ̣kagụlụ
kagụlú ̣kagụlụmọ
kágụlú ̣ụ
kágụlú ̣ụmọ
kágụrú ̣ụ
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
f
fg
fg
even; too; also; likewise
burst asunder; gush; be torn; be pierced
through
tattered (of cloth)
king of fish; tigerfish
Urhobo town from which type of hard farina
is obtained; cf. kaḅóna’ífinia
adage; proverb; traditional maxim;
enigmatical saying; allegory; parable; saw;
by-word
speak proverbially or ironically (to someone)
speak a proverb
special noose for doubling meshes (net
weaving)
put such a noose
gnarled; gnarly; rugged
ruggedly
covered with protuberances; twisted; rugged
ruggedly
lean and small
in a lean and small way
become tangled; be tied with (loincloth)
sideways
tie; fasten; tether
tie, bind (to, down to, together); attach; fasten
to
firm; of solid or compact structure
be firm; get compact; get consolidated
firmness
firmly; compactly
consolidate; compact; solidify;
dam a creek during the day in a special
manner for fishing in night tide
cargo; wares
very uneven (e.g. of floor); crooked (e.g. of
wood)
unevenly; crookedly
twisted, rugged (of larger objects)
twistedly; ruggedly
sinewy (of a strong man); muscular;
awkwardly bent (of tree)
in a sinewy or muscular way; in an
awkwardly-bent way
uneven; crooked (less than kagulúkagulu)
unevenly; crookedly
twisted; rugged (of smaller objects)
twistedly; ruggedly
sinewy (of smaller man); muscular;
awkwardly bent (of a smaller tree)
157
Hydrocynus vittatus
[ vitteatus?]
(cf. ịgabó)
cf. nangá kagịmọ
‘tread (something)
firm’
<English cargo)
kágụrú ̣ụmọ
adv.
kái1
kái2
kái2
káimọ
káị
káị
káịmọ
káịn
káịn koro
kaí ̣
v.i.
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
kaịn-óngu
kaín-ye
̣
káịnkólo
n.pl.p
ers.
n.
n.m.
b
kaká
n.
kakaḅúu
kakaḅúu
kakaḅúumọ
kakaḅú ̣ụ
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.t.
and
n.
a.
v.i.
kákaráa
kákaráa
kakarákakara
n.
adv.
v.i.
and
n.
v.i.
and
n.
v.i.
kakarákakara
kakarákakaramọ
kákoló
kákolóo
kákolóomọ
kákoro
n.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
kákoromọ
kakorókakoro
kákurúu
kákurúumọ
kakụrú ̣kakụrụ
kakụrú ̣kakụrụ
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
kákaráa
káraráamọ
kakaráa
kakaráakakaráa
in a sinewy or muscular way; in an
awkwardly-bent way
abound; be plentiful
bang; make sound of gun or explosion
bang; report of gun
with a bang
make sound as of striking a stone or bone
sound of a knife on a stone or bone
with a sharp blow
come off (as fruit from tree or leg from crab)
be plucked off
pluck; pick (flower, fruit); reap; harvest, crop
(grain crop such as maize, rice, etc.)
reapers; harvesters
instrument for reaping; harvesting machine
bird sp.; bulbul
Pycnonotus
barbatus (= akpoégele)
fourth day of the native week held sacred and
as day of rest before the advent of the English
seven-day week
snap; make sudden audible bite
snap
with a snap
same as kakaḅúu, but of smaller object
dry
be dry and stiff (e.g. as sheet); be dry and
crumbly (as mud floor)
dryness
in a dry way
rattle; crackle (as of dry leaves)
(make) rapid succession of short sharp hard
sounds; rattle
struggle; contend with in violent effort to get
free or escape grasp
violent struggle
strugglingly
precipitousness; steepness
steep; precipitous
steeply; precipitously
strong without flesh; hard without water (of
land)
in a strong but lean or dry way
(of palm fruit) having thin pulp; stony
muscular
muscularly
stony (of fruit)
stoniness
158
(cf. fakaráa)
kakụrú ̣kakụrụmọ
kákụrú ̣ụ
kalá1
adv.
a.
a.
kalá2
kala-áma
kala erému
n.
n.
n.
kaláfuro
kaláị1
n.
n.pl.
kaláị2 (kaláyaị)
n.pl.
kalánama
kalíe (kaláye)
n.
n.
kalíọ̣ 1
n.
bit; drop; small piece of anything; e.g.
kalíọ̣ 2
adv.
awhile; for a short time; slightly; e.g.
kalíọḅụkọ
̣
kala-ó ̣wọma
kala-ó ̣wọmayaị
kaláseri
kalató ̣gụ
kaláịn
adv.
n.pl.
n.pl.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
and
a.
v.i.
kaláịnmọ
adv.
kalukalu
kalukalúmọ
kalụkalụ
kambala
a.
adv.
a.
n.
and
v.i.
adv.
a.
kaláwarị
kaláḅarị
kámbaláamọ
kambí
f
bp
stonily (of fruit)
stony (of fruit)
little; minute; small; junior; lesser; minor;
smaller
small or big root or opú ikemu
village; small town
spotted soapfish
small intestines
few; not many; e.g.
small ones; small pieces or things; e.g.
al
p
d
small animal
something small; small thing or piece; e.g.
nearly, almost; (lit. "it remained small")
small children
chickenpox; varicella; measles
first flow of tide
small child (0-12 years)
small house; closet
N ew Calabar people; pertaining to them
jump smartly on one foot with the other raised
(as in a dance); raise both legs casually while
sleeping on a bed (as children do)
jumping smartly on one foot with the other
raised, or raising both legs while resting on a
bed
pop-eyed; having bulging eyes; bulgy
with bulging eyes
same as preceding
straddle; (be in) attitude with legs wide apart
with a straddle
sour; of acid taste as a result of fermentation
159
? Rypticus
subbifrenatus. cf.
erému
kaláị ékị
̣ ḅóo
‘bring a few’; kaláị
bú ̣ kó ̣ ‘a few were
left’; indi ákalaị
ékị
̣ ḅóo ‘bring a
few fishes’
ó ̣wọmá kalaị
‘small children’;
mamá kalaịmá
táan ‘collect these
small ones’
kalíemí kó
̣ ̣ọn ‘pick
the small piece’
(singular of kaláị)
mindítọpị kalịọ:
‘little drop of water’
í na
̣ kalíọ̣ koru
‘wait awhile with
me’; kalíọ̣ seítẹ
‘slightly spoilt’
kambí
kambí
kambímọ
kambimó ̣
kambịlí ̣
kambịlí ̣
kambịlịmó ̣
kámbịlíị̣
kámbịlíịmọ
̣
kámbolóo
kámbolóomọ
kámị
kamí ̣
kamíḍọgị
̣
kamíḍọgị
̣
kamíḍọgịmó
̣
̣ mọndị
kamíkamị
̣
kamíkamịmọ
̣
kamí k
̣ ọrị
kamí ṣ ụọ
kamịníkamịnị
̣
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
kamịníkamịnị
̣
kamó1̣
n.
n.
kamó1̣
kamó2̣
v.i.
n.
kamó2̣
v.t.
kamó ̣ye
n.
kán
kan
n.
v.t.
kaná
n.m.
kanátịḅị
kana
n.
n.
kanakaná
v.i.
kándikándi
kándikándimọ
kangá
kangá
v.i.
and
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
kangámọ
kangamó ̣
adv.
v.t.
become sour
sourness
sourly
make sour, soured
become sour
sourness
make sour; sour
sour; of acid taste, due to much potash
sourly
hollow-eyed; having sunken eyes
with sunken eyes
quarrel; find fault with; brawl; squabble
quarrel; altercation; squabble; brawl
quarrelsome
quarrelsomeness
go about quarrelsomely
peevish; querulous; irritable
querulously
compose a quarrel
quarrel
tingle; feel prickling sensation (especially in
throat)
tingle; prickling sensation (esp. in throat)
ceremonial pouring of libation during feast,
masquerade or funeral rites of juju persons
pour libation
free gift of fish, food, etc., given to one
another on highways; the act of presenting
such gifts
give out, receive, such gifts; e.g.
bs
elephant tail hair used as necklace in olden
days (a version of Aro Igbo nkam ényí)
earth formed from remains of wood ash; dust
rend; tear; lacerate; mangle; scatter (meeting,
gathering)
basket; wicker vessel of cane ropes, rushes,
etc.; the quantity contained in it
basketful
carboy; large globular glass bottle usually
protected with a frame of rushes; demijohn
tingle; feel prickling or stinging sensation
(esp. in the nose)
sprawl; spread (one’s limbs) out in ungainly
way; sprawling movement
with a sprawl
dry; without water
become dry by evaporation, draining, wiping,
etc.
in a dry way
make dry; dry
160
(cf. kanmó ̣)
kamó ̣ ó ‘give (me)
something!’ (said
e.g. when passing
people fishing)
kangákiri
kángaláa
kángaláa
kángaláamọ
kángaráa
kángaráa
kángaráamọ
kángaráamó ̣
kángiríi
kángiríi
kángiríimọ
kángolóo
kángolóo
kángolóomọ
kángoróo
kángoróo
kángoróomọ
kanmó ̣
káparáa
káparáamọ
kápóo
kápóomọ
kapúu
kapúumọ
kapú`ụ
kará
kará
karágha
karámọ
karamó ̣
n.
a.
v.i.,
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
n.
and
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
and
v.t.
adv.
n. &
v.t.
a.
a.
adv.
v.t.
kara
v.t.
karasara-áye
karákara
n.pl.
a.
karákara
karákara
karákaramọ1
v.i.
n.
adv.
karákaramọ2
-karamó ̣
v.t.
a.
dry land
straddling; sprawling
straddle; sprawl
with a straddle
dry; fatless (of fish or meat)
be dry or fatless
in a dry or fatless way
make dry
robust; not slender
robustness
robustly
large (of living things) in comparison with
another of same kind
comparatively large size
in a comparatively large way
emaciated; lean
emaciation; leanness
in an emaciated way
(pour) libation
(cf. kamó ̣)
ungracefully lean and tall
in a tall and lean way
lean; emaciated
in an emaciated way
snap; (make) sudden audible bite or cut
with a snap
same as preceding
A. complete
B. too much
incomplete
completely
complete; make up the amount of, or the
position of
carve; slice off pieces from (wood, etc.) with
knife; sliver; peel; take off skin from (yam,
cocoyam, pineapple, etc.)
peelings; slivers
straight; without curve or bend; erect; vertical;
upright; righteous; strictly honourable or
honest; just; equitable; straightforward
be straight or erect
straightness; erectness; honesty; justness
straight; vertically; uprightly; righteously;
honestly; justly; straightforwardly; etc.
straighten or make straight
pertaining to position: e.g.
161
máịnkaramọ
‘second’;
traịkaramọ ‘third’;
ineinkaramọ
karan
n.
karapúu
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
karapúumọ
karapú ̣ụ
karapú ̣ụmọ
kararáa
kararáamọ
káraríi
káraríimọ
kararíi
kararíimọ
kararíị̣
kararíịmọ
̣
karí ̣
karí ̣
karíwarị
̣
kasíimọ
kásị
excl.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
kasí1̣
v.t.
kasí1̣
kasí1̣
n.
kasịmó ̣
v.t.
tekelé kasị
kasí2̣
kásoróo
kásoróo
kásoróo
kásoróomọ
kasụkasú ̣
kasụkasú ̣mọ
kátaḅáa
kátaḅáa
v.t.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
karíị̣
karịzíni
oweikarịzíni
karụkarú ̣
karụkarú ̣mọ
kasa
kasíi
h
a
fg
shrub of spearmint family; tea-bush; scentleaf; African curry-powder; used for cookery
and as medicine; savoury
snip (larger things); (make) cut with small
quick strokes as with scissors
with a snip
snip (smaller things)
with a snip
(feel) slightly twisting sensation on side of
body; feel a twinge
tightly, with twisting sensation
stern (of look)
sternly
(feel) grating sensation in throat in
swallowing
with grating sensation
similar to preceding, but sharper and more
painful
with sharp grating sensation
pray; worship; adore; engage in prayer
prayer; litany; worship
church; prayer-house; house of worship;
synagogue; cathedral
serve you right!
kerosene
petrol
rough; not smooth
roughly
racket for drying fish
(give forth) sound (as) of a shrewd or sharp
blow
with the sound of a sharp blow
be confined or imprisoned; be locked up; be
crucified; (of screw) tighten
fetter; shackle; chain; imprison; confine; lock;
nail; crucify; load; charge (as gun with shot);
button up (as chest); tighten (nut or screw)
A. confinement; imprisonment
B. charge; right quantity of explosive for gun;
load
fasten; fetter; shackle; chain; nail (to
something)
crucify
dress up with cloth
lean; gaunt; thin; not plump
grow lean or thin
leanness; gauntness
thinly
bony; thorny
with bones
stiff; rigid; not flexible
stiffen
162
‘fourth’
Ocimum
gratissimum Linn.
(Labiatae)
<English
(cf. kófolóo)
káụmọ
kaú ̣n1
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.t.
kaú ̣n2
v.t.
kaú ̣n3
kaú ̣n4
v.i.
&
v.t.
v.
kaú ̣n5
v.t.
kaú ̣n6
n.
keḅé1
v.t.
keḅé2
v.t.
kee (?)
keekee (?)
keekeemọ
kéfekéfe
kéfekéfe
kéfekéfemọ
kéferée
kéguru
keki
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
v.i.
kátaḅáa
kátaḅáamọ
kátakáta
kátakáta
kátakátamọ
kátakpóo
kátakpóomọ
katịkatí ̣
katịkatímọ
̣
káu
káumọ
káụ
stiffness
stiffly
boil vigorously
vigorous boiling
vigorously
tall and stout
stoutly
thorny; spiny; prickly; full of spines
with thorns
(give forth) sound (as) of cutting with an axe,
or of hitting foot heavily against something
with such loud sound
(give forth) sound (as) of cutting with sharp
knife
with such sharp sound
catch (a thrown object); snap; take up word
from someone without letting one finish;
snatch; sei(feel) grating sensation in throat
when swallowing
dash foot against something
b
hawk
grating sensation in throat when swallowing;
clear throat noisily to bring up (phlegm, bone
etc.)
bear malice or wrongful intention towards
another; threaten; state intention firmly
palm fibre left after oil has been expressed
and the nuts separated
influence; have effect upon (foetus)
fp
leave (someone) sad after departure from a
place; be missed by (someone)
(utter) loud shout or cry
loud shout or cry
(of shout) loudly
stagger; totter
stagger(ing); totter(ing)
staggeringly
(of clothes and nose only) short
gizzard or crop of mullets, bonga
be near; draw near to; approach
163
e.g. ekuré ị̣̣́ kaú
̣
̣n I
stubbed mỵ̣̣̣̣ toe
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
̣̣̣
e.g. pọgó ̣ kaú
̣n
e.g. ó í kaú
̣
̣n wọrí ̣
he bore malice
towards me, he
threatened me
e.g. owuḅeí
tó ̣gụmá keḅeté ̣ the
maspuerade has
influenced the baby
girl (i.e. the baby
looks like the
masquerade her
mother saw while
pregnant)
e.g. wa ama ná
kekité ̣ we are near
home
keki
a.
near; close to (in time or place)
keki
adv.
near; at a short distance
kekía
v.i.
be near; draw near to
kekía
a.
near; close to (in time)
kekía
adv.
kekíamọ
adv.
closely
kekíya
v.i.
be near; draw near to
kelú
n.
kelúkeluḅaḅuru
kémbeláa
kémbeláa
kémbeláamo
kéngereḅa
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n. pl.
kengerékengeré
kengerékengerémo
kengu
kengu
kengumó ̣
kení
kenwáakenwáa
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
kenwáakenwáa
kenwáakenwáamo
keráa
keráa
keráamọ
kékéin
kékéin
kékéinmọ
kékéinmọ
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
adv.
deep part of river; depth; deep water; deep
place; abyss
water-lily
big, fat, robust
waddle (of movement of fat person)
in a waddling way
phosperescence in salt water seen glowing at
night when water is disturbed
(of tears) rise to eyes
with tears rising to eyes
chill; become cold; freeze
harden; congeal; condense
(cause to) freeze; congeal; coagulate; chill
carve (meat) in pieces; chp; cut small
swagger; show self-confidence or selfsatisfaction by gait; walk like a superior
among inferiors
swaggering gait
swaggeringly
give crack on the head with force
crack on the head caused by force
with forceful crack
rigid; stiff; not flexible
collected (of human being)
rigidly
collectedly
164
h
e.g. ịna kekinimi
warí ṣ ụó ̣ọ enter the
house near you
e.g. ó fí n
̣ a mu
kekité ̣ he is near to
death, he is almost
dead
e.g. wa ama ná
kekíatẹ we have
drawn near to home
e.g. kekía ene ghọ
ḅóo come on a near
day (i.e. soon); wa
kekíanimí we are
related; kekía ifie
in a short time;
kekía tẹíṇ nearest,
next
e.g. wa ama ná mu
kekíatẹ we have
gone near home
e.g. kekíamọ ó léẹ̣
flog him from close
at hand; kekíamọ ó
díị̣ examine him
closely
e.g. wa ama ná
kekíatẹ we have
drawn near to home
kérekére
a.
kérekére
kérekéremọ
kérekére kérekére
kérekére kérekére
kérekére
kérekéremọ
kerikerí
kerikerímọ
kesi
kesi agbará
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
sociable; ready and willing to converse; not
averse to society; liking company
sociability
sociably
unsteady in behaviour
unsteady behaviour
with unsteady behaviour
a.
adv.
a.
n.
f
rough; not smooth
roughly
actual, licit; real; true; proper; genruine
snapper sp.
kesiḅará
kesi-ikereḅu
adv.
n.
cr
properly; truly; actually; genuinely; really
new cocoyam
kesímọ
kesiye1
kesiye2
késíi
késímọ
kéteḅáa
kéteḅáamọ
ketiketí
kéu
kéu
adv.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
v.i.
kéumọ
ké1̣
adv.
v.t.
ké2̣
v.t.
kéẹ̣
kéfú
̣ ̣ụ
kéfú
̣ ̣ụmọ
kẹgé1̣
kẹgé2̣
kẹgẹrịḅá
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
kẹgẹrịḅátụa
kẹgị
kéịké
̣ ị̣
kéịké
̣ ịmọ
̣
kékẹ
̣ 1
kékẹ
̣ 2
kékẹ
̣
kékẹ
̣ 1
a.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
kékẹ
̣ 2
kẹkẹré1̣
kẹkẹré1̣
kẹkẹrémọ
̣
kẹkẹré2̣
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
actually; really
verily; truly
fact
composed; tranquil; calm
composedly
solid; rigid
solidly; rigidly
spiny; prickly
sound (as) of a sharp blow on the head
give forth sound (as) of a sharp blow on the
head
with sharp sound (as) of a blow on the head
avoid; abstain from; eschew; shun; skirt; pass
close to without touching
slice; pare; cut (cloth into pattern)
b
be sliced; be pared; be cut into pattern
(of cloth) short
in a short way
guard an entrance
aquatic bird (unidentified)
condition of legs being bandy or wide apart at
the knees
bandy-legged; bow-legged
guard
hesitate; be reluctant
hesitatingly
cave in (of earth); be worn out
expand (of ulcer); emerge from egg
erosion; abrasion (of waves)
cut food in pieces; chip; hack; hew; wash (of
waves); wear out
hatch (egg)
make clucking (of hen after laying); cackle
clucking; cackle
cacklingly
economize; use sparingly; practise economy;
165
Lutjanus sp. cf.
agbára
Xanthosoma
maffafa
e.g. ké ̣ b ̣ọgọ
c.f. ké mu imení
ghọ koromó ̣ pare
(nails) to the quick
c.f. ẹbí ̣
kẹkẹré2̣
kẹkẹré3̣
kẹkụ
kẹkụrụ
&
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
kélé
̣ in
̣
a.
kélé
̣ inmọ
̣
adv.
kẹlụkẹlú ̣
kẹlụkẹlú ̣
a.
adj
kẹlụkẹlú ̣mọ
kẹmbéẹkẹmbé
ẹ̣
̣
adv.
a.
kẹmbéẹkẹmbé
ẹ̣
̣
kẹmbéẹkẹmbé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
kẹmbélẹkẹmbé
lẹ
̣
̣
lẹ
̣
̣
lẹm
̣
̣
ọ
kéngẹ
̣
kẹngé1̣
kẹngé ̣ koro
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
kẹngé2̣
kẹngélẹkẹngé
lẹ
̣
̣
lẹ
̣
̣
lẹmọ
̣
̣
kẹngẹrékẹngẹrẹ
̣
kẹnịfa
kẹnrénkẹnrẹn
̣
kẹnrẹnkẹnrẹn
kẹnrẹnkẹnrẹn
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i..
a.
v.i.
kẹrẹndú ̣kẹrẹndụ
v.i.
kẹrẹndú ̣kẹrẹndụm
ọ
késẹké
sẹ
̣
̣
adv.
tilted
tilt
remain in a tilted way (as a boat on land);
bend sideways (as in a dance)
kind of tree
wobble (as of floating object in water)
wobble
with a wobble
(of tears) rise to eyes
‘nineteen’ in a game of cards
(of rain) abate; diminish; lessen
very ripe or mellow
be very ripe or mellow; be smoothly scraped
(as roasted food); be ready to burst (of boil)
move close by someone looking for favour;
meddle; interfere
in a meddlesome way
v.i.
drizzle; (fall in) fine dense drops of rain
a.
n.
v.p.
m
be frugal; be economical (especially with
regard to food)
frugality
pursue (person) with palaver
manage with inadequate material
rope squirrel (tree squirrel) spp.
passing casually in a balanced way; standing
in a balanced way (usually on one leg e.g. of
birds)
in a balanced way (usually of standing on one
leg or passing casually)
dwarfish; stunted (especially of mangroves)
(describes) eyes of someone who has been in
water for a long time
dwarfishly (!); stuntedly
moving in a showy way (as when wearing
new clothes)
move in a showy way
showily
swagger
swagger; swaggering gait
swaggeringly
166
Thomas’s rope
squirrel (redless
tree squirrel),
Funisciurus
anerythrus, redcheeked rope
squirrel (orangehead tree squirrel),
F. leucogenys, firefooted rope quirrel
(fire-foot tree
squirrel), F.
pyrropus. Also
recorded as kékụrụ
̣
késẹké
sẹ
̣
̣
késẹké
sẹ
̣
̣
késẹké
sẹmọ
̣
̣
kẹsíị̣
kẹsíị̣
kẹsíịmọ
̣
kétụké
tụ
̣
̣
kétụké
tụ
̣
̣
kétụké
tụmọ
̣
̣
kéụn
̣ 1
kéụn
̣ 2
kéụn
̣ 3
kéụnmọ
̣
kẹụn1
n.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
a.
a.
adv.
n.
kẹụn2
n.m.
f
kẹụn-agbara
kẹwá
n.
n.m.
f
kí1
v.i.
kí2
v.t.
kí3
v.t.
kímọ
ki1
ki2
ki3
kịánkururu
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
kịárara
n.
kíasíi
kíḅikíḅi
a.
v.i.
kíḅikíḅi
kíḅikíḅimọ
kídibúu
kídibúu
kídibúu
kídibúumọ
kigbo
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
f
drizzle; fine dense drops of rain
drizzly
with a drizzle
short; not tall
be short
in a short way
dwarfish (!)
dwarfishness
dwarfishly
spruce; neat in dress and appearance;
dexterous; deft; neat-handed; skilful
dry; without water (of root crops)
neatly; sprucely; deftly; dexterously; skilfully
potash used in cookery or mixed with tobacco
for snuff
fish sp., African red snapper
Lutjanus agennes
cf. agbára
African red snapper
Lutjanus agennes
mongoose spp. [‘fox’]
marsh mongoose,
Atilax paludinosus,
and long-snouted
mongoose
(longnosed mongoose),
Herpestes naso
wink at; momentarily close one eye to convey e.g. tọrụ ékị
̣ kị
private intimation to person
adjourn, put off (of case, meeting); postphone; e.g. (of case,
change date of meeting; delay, defer;
meeting) kí dịn ené
prị; kị sigimó ̣
appoint, fix (time, place, for a purpose)
ene kí fix a date;
ifié ki fix a time
put off to (another time)
cut, chop hack; hew, mangle, notch
tap (wine)
tattoo
green-backed heron
Butorides striatus
(cf. kurukuruḅou;
ogbokó; pịnáḅou
fish-eating bird; tern
family Sternidae
(=kịérịya;
cf.
̣
akú ̣pa; apú ̣ka)
weighty; massive
struggle; contend with person or obstacle or
work
struggle
with struggle (difficulty?)
fat-bellied (due to food); stodgy; bulging
bulge
stodginess; bulginess
in a bulging manner
Sardinella
maderensis, =
sardine
búza, gbódo2. cf.
afarụ1, ikerere,
167
kparakpará
kigí1
sikakigí
kigí2
n.
n.
v.t.
kigímọ
kigimó ̣
v.i.
v.t.
kigíye
kígigúu
kígigúu
kígigúumọ
mịé ̣ kígigúu
kígigúu(yọ)
kígoni
kíi
kíiki
kíikimọ
kíinkíin
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
kíinkíinmọ
kike
kike
kíkele
kíkele
kikelé
adv.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
kíkelemó ̣
kíkelemó ̣
kíkiríi
kíkiríimọ
kíle
kile
kilemó ̣
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
kingbou
kíngiríi
kíngiríimọ
kingirímangígha
̣
kíoi
kiosíi
n.
a.
adv.
n.
num.
v.t.
kiosíimọ
kirí1
adv.
n.
kirí2
kiri3
kiri-ánga
kiri-ánga
kiríḅio
kiríḅio
kiríḅolo
kiríḅọgọtẹ(ḅọ)
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
a.
n.
n.m.f
wall
gable end (wall)
balk, block, check dam, delay, hinder, detain,
restrain, bar, preclude, stop, thwart, obstruct,
hamper, impede, dissuade
be shadowed or shielded
cover, shade, screen, shadow, shield, keep off,
defend
hindrance, restraint, obstruction, impediment
stiff, rigid, unbending
be stiffened
stiffly, rigidly
stiffen, make stiff
stiffness, stiffening
gun with stone as percussion cap
be cut
walk heavily, thud
with a thud
running heavily, thudding (of steps)
f
with a thud
sẹkịapú ̣ dancing shout
to give sẹkịapú ̣ dancing shout
flounder, squirm, wriggle, writhe, wallow, roll
floundering, squirming, wriggling
roll, cause to move or turn in some direction
over and over, trundle
roll, trundle
the act of rolling
stocky; short and strongly-built
in a stocky manner
mingle with; go about among
defilement, pollution
defile, pollute, desecrate, make ceremonially
unclean
tree good for soft wood carving
fat and short
in a fat, short way
largest type of ray
one (used in counting only)
pierce, prick (of sharp instrument); make hole
in (cask, boil etc.)
piercingly
earth, ground, land, soil; ground fenced off for
tillage
farm, building site, estate
floor
landside, landward
landside, landward
underpart, underneath
underpart, underneath
kind of weed
dead ancestor
168
n.b. lighter than
gbíin
order Rajiformes
kirídụ
kiríḍiri
kirífa
kirífofo
kirí gbori
kirí ghọ timi
kiríghọtimíye
kiríkiri
kirídiriyọ1
kirídiriyọ2
kirí kpokpo
kirí kpuru
kirí kọ
kiríkọ
kiríkọḅọ
kiríkọyaị
kiríkọye
kiríkọyọ
kirí la
.
n.
n.
a.
n.m.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
ad.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.pl.
n.
n.
v.p.
kiri-óḅori
kiri-ó ̣tọkọ
kirísoguye1
kirísoguye2
kirísụgịrị-ene
kirí sụọ1
kirí sụọ2
ḅiokiri
waríkiri
̣ 1
waríkiri
̣ 2
-kiri
n.
n.m.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
kírimáin
kírimáinmọ
kirínakirína
kirínakirínamọ
kíriríi
kíriríi
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
kíriríimọ
kírokíro
kírokíromọ
kíti
kití
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
kítikíti
kítikíti
kítikíti
a.
v.i.
n.
kirímọndịarụ
kirímọndịwei
kirínyanaḅọ
base, bottom
kind of weed
groundless
snake sp.; carpet viper
fence off a piece of land
sit on ground, sit down
seat
shallow, not deep
shallow place
shoal
glean; gather grains left by reapers
cut down large trees on top of growing crops
remain, be left over or behind
final, last, only remaining
survivor, remainder (of a family)
Echis carinatus
remains, residue
remainder, surplus
remainder, surplus
reach land; be shallow (within a person’s
depth or so that a stick can reach the bottom
vehicle (general), car, lorry etc.
snake (general)
landowner
da
goat
kind of shrub
plough
crowbar
Saturday
sink; fall to the bottom
become land (of watery place)
dry land
floor
building site
(usually suffixed to proper names to mean)
settlement, colony
rigid, rigescent
rigidly
immediate
immediately
rigid; unyielding
refuse to stand up in time when called or
pulled
rigidly
avaricious; eager to get
avariciously
bustle; excited activity; fuss
bustle; make show of activity; fuss; hurry
about or up and down
cursory; hasty; hurried
move fussily about or up and down
fuss; bustle; excessive commotion;
169
Inémọkiri Inémo’s
settlement
kítikítimọ
kítipúu
kítipúu
kítipúumọ
kíạ
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
kíạ
kíạ paga
kịá
kịamó ̣
kịáye
kịaḅịlíị̣
n.
v.p.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
kịaḅil`íịmọ
̣
kịaní ̣
kịánkururu
adv.
n.
n.
ostentatious activity; cursoriness
fussily; cursorily
very dark; dense
grow dark
densely
permeate; diffuse itself through; percolate;
filter through
percolation; filtration
ooze out
drain; filter; strain; filtrate
drain or filter into
filter; strainer
snatch; seize quickly, eagerly, or
unexpectedly, especially with out-stretched
hand; catch neatly (e.g. agalá)
in a snatching way; with a snatch
walking stick
green-backed heron
kịápịsí ̣
kịárara
n.
n.
percussion cap
kịátị
n.
card game
kídịbú
̣
̣ụ
kídịbú
̣
̣ụmọ
kịékịẹ
̣
kịékịẹ
̣
kíẹn
̣ 1
kíẹn
̣ 2
kịéṇ
a.
adv.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
kịéṇ
kịénya
̣
n.
a.
ogbó kịẹnmọ
v.p.
kịẹn
kịẹrị
kịẹrị
kịẹrịḅara
kịẹrịḅeri
kịẹrịḅịḅị
kịẹrịḅọ
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
p
bulging (of smaller objects than kídibúu)
in a bulging manner
entirety; entireness; completeness
altogether; completely; entirely; totally
be counted; be enumerated
become cracked
count; calculate; enumerate; reckon up; single
out
counting; enumeration; calculation
(of persons) specific, definite; distinctly
formulated (number)
add up or add together; count up; find the sum
of
crack (as kernel, enamel)
alone; lonely; solitary; only; sole; lone; mere
only; solely; exclusively
lone hand
something heard by one person
lone opinion
single person; individual; each person
p
lone voice
solitariness
individual
individual person
kịẹrịpọgọ
kịẹrịtịḅị
kịẹrịtịḅị
kịẹrịtịḅịḅọ
kịérịya
̣
170
Butorides striatus
(cf. kurukuruḅou;
ogbokó; pịnáḅou
family Sternidae
(=kịérịya;
cf.
̣
<English card, or
French cartes)
(or kịékịẹmọ)
̣
(lit. "lone ear")
family Sternidae
(=kịárara; cf.
kígẹ
̣
v.i.
kígẹ
̣
kígẹ-aye
̣
kígẹḅọ
̣
a.
n.pl.
n.m.f
.
kígẹgha
̣
kịgémọ
̣
kígẹyọ
̣
kígịgú
̣
̣ụ
kígịgú
̣
̣ụ
kígịgú
̣
̣ụmọ
kịgọrị
kíkalị
̣
kịkalí ̣
kíkalí
̣ ḅa
̣
v.t.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
kíkịrí
̣ ị̣
kíkịrí
̣ ịmọ
̣
kíkó
̣ ̣ọ
a.
adv.
a.
kíkó
̣ ̣ọmọ
kịlé1̣
kịlé2̣
kịlẹyaị
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.pl.
kịlịkịlị
kịlịkịlímọ
̣
kịlọḅú ̣kịlọḅụ1
kịlọḅú ̣kịlọḅụmọ1
kịlọḅú ̣kịlọḅụyọ
kịlọḅú ̣kịlọḅụ2
kịlọḅú ̣kịlọḅụmọ2
kịlọḅú ̣ụ
kịlọḅú ̣ụmọ
kịló ̣kị
kílọkí
̣ lọ̣
kílọkí
̣ lọmọ
̣
kịló ̣lị
kịló ̣lị
kịló ̣lịmọ
kịlọlịmó ̣
kịló ̣lọ
kílọló
̣ ̣ọ
kílọló
̣ ̣ọmọ
kílọ́ ̣ọ
kílọ́ ̣ọ
kílọ́ ̣ọmọ
kịmịkịmịḍiḅikiri
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
p
t
h
ms
bp
resemble; be like; have similarity to or feature
in common with or same appearance as; seem;
appear
alike; similar
similar things
mate; peer; equal
unlike; not like; dissimilar
resemble (a person)
resemblance; similitude; likeness
tight; closely and firmly drawn together
be tight
tightly
screwpine; pandanus
sliver; break off as sliver
sliver; break off pieces
plant sp. resembling fịsanị but pungent
short and stocky (smaller)
stockily
short; not far-reaching; at arm’s length; fairly
narrow
shortly; narrowly
refuse, forsake
boast; be proud
funeral masquerade played for deceased
people of high caste (furo-ébi-óngu)
wise; discreet; crafty
wisely; discreetly
be tantalized
tantalizingly
epiglottis
breathe faintly (of a dying person)
with a faint breath
concise; curt; terse
curtly; tersely
clock
intent; earnest; eager (of looks); watchful
intently; earnestly; eagerly; watchfully
trickle; flow in drops or in small steady stream
trickle
with a trickle
cause liquid to trickle; cry; weep
trickle; flow in drops
trickly; trickling
with a trickle
intent; eager (of looks)
look intently; pry
intently; eagerly
human; of, belonging to, man
burial ground; cemetery; graveyard
171
(pl. kígẹ-ongu)
̣
Aframomum
sceptrum (Oliv. &
Hanb.) K. Schum.
(Zingiberaceae)
<English clock
kịmị-itu
kịmị-ịkịtaka
kịmíkịmị
̣
kịmịnaịn
kịmịnama
kịmị-ọgịzị
kịmịsẹ
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
kịmịtịḅị
kịmịtọgụ
kịmụkịmú ̣
kịmụkịmú ̣
kịmụkịmú ̣mọ1
kịmụkịmú ̣mọ2
kímú
̣ ̣ụ
adv.
n.m.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a. &
n.
n.m.
v.t.
kịna
kịngá
kịngẹrị
kịngẹrịḅara
kịngẹrịḅọ
kịngẹrịtịḅị
kịngẹrịtịḅịḅọ
kíngị
̣
kịngị
kínkịa
̣
kịó ̣nị
a.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
kíọnkí
ọnmọ
̣
̣
kịọnkịó ̣n
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
kịọnkịó ̣nmọ
kíọrí
̣ ị̣
kíọrí
̣ ị̣
kíọrí
̣ ị̣
kíọrí
̣ ịmọ
̣
kíọsí
̣ ị̣
kịọsíị̣
kịọsíịmọ
̣
kịpú ̣
kírị̣ 1
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
mịé ̣ kịrịmó ̣
kírị̣ 2
v.p.
a.
kịó ̣nịmọ
kịó ̣nịkịó ̣nị
kịó ̣nịkịó ̣nịmọ
kịọníkịọní
̣
̣
kíọnkí
ọn
̣
̣
bp
p
f
crowd; multitude
crowd; multitude
everybody
contemptuous attitude
human flesh
crowd; multitude
human creature; human race; human nature;
humanity
per head; each
mankind; human being; human species
tight; tense; taut
tautness; tightness
tightly; tautly
tighten; tauten
same as preceding
fish sp.; N ile perch
barter; exchange thing for some other thing;
buy
alone; only; lone
lone land
each person; individual
(pl. kịmị-ọwọma)
Lates niloticus
solitariness
single person
fo
be felled (of tree)
fell (tree)
biscuit
drip; fall in drops from anus (of watery
evacuation), or from mouth or nostril (due to
bending after eating)
in drops
sporadic; occurring only here and there
sporadically
drip frequently (especially from the anus)
chirp; peep (as of chicken); (make) sharp
short note (as) of small bird
chirpingly; with a peep
(of oils) light; not heavy; (of water) as clear as
crystal; crystalline; (of eyes) bright, clear
lightly; clearly; brightly
not wide; narrow (of space)
become narrower; contract
narrowness
narrowly
small and emaciated; looking very leggy
prick, pierce sharply (of sharp instrument)
piercingly
make click at as sign of contempt
be well; come back to health; be recovered
from illness, etc.
make well; cure
different; not the same; unlike; of other
172
<English cracker
kírị̣ 2
v.i.
kírị̣ 2
kírịmọ
̣
kírịtọrụ
̣
kịrí ̣
n.
adv.
a.
v.t.
kírịkí
̣ rị̣
a.
kírịkí
̣ rịmọ
̣
adv.
kịrịkịrí1̣
kịrịkịrímọ
̣ 2
kịrịkịrí ̣
kịrịkịrímọ
̣
kịrịpú ̣kịrịpụ
kịrịpú ̣kịrịpụmọ
kịrịrị
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kịrịrị
n.
kịrịrịmó ̣
kírịrú
̣
̣ụ
kịrịrú ̣ụ
kịrịrú ̣ụ
kịrịrú ̣ụmọ
kịrịrụú ̣
kịrịrụú ̣mọ
kísáa
̣
kísáagha
̣
kísáamọ
̣
kítịkí
̣ tị̣
kítịkí
̣ tịmọ
̣
kítịkí
̣ tị-ọlọ
̣
kịtịkịtí1̣
kịtịkịtí2̣
kịtịkịtímọ
̣
kíya
̣
kịyá
kóḅiri
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
kóḅirimọ
koḅirí
adv.
v.t.
koḅirimó ̣
koḅiríya
koḅiríya
kóḅirikóḅiri
kóḅu
kóḅugha
koḅu
koḅughá
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
a.
v.t.
a.
da
da
nature, form, or quality; separate; dissimilar
differ from; be unlike, be at variance; be
distinguishable from; vary; be different in
degree or quality
difference; dissimilarity; variation
differently; separately
queer; strange; odd; eccentric
crop (hair); clip; cut; cut to pieces; peel into
bits; pare rind of fruit
diverse; varied; sundry; several; different;
separate; respective; distinct
diversely; severally; differently; separately;
respectively
detail; item by item
in detail
tight; closely fastened (usually of network)
tightly
cunning; crafty; subtle; artful; wily
cunningly; craftily; subtly; wilily
niggardly; parsimonious; stingy; giving
grudgingly
niggardliness; act of giving in small amounts;
stinginess
in a niggardly way; stingily
very small and scanty (of size)
make gnawing sound
gnawing sound
with a gnawing sound
exact; precise
exactly; precisely
steady; skilful for one’s age
unsteady
steadily
incessant (of laugh); (of cough) whooping
incessantly; unceasingly
whooping cough
donkey; ass
compact; closely packed together or woven
compactly
same as kíạ
same as kịá
be assembled; congregate; collect, gather, into
a crowd
collectively; together
assemble; gather together; collect; congregate;
garner; pack; put (things) closely together
collect into a place; aggregate; heap up
call together; gather together; convoke
assembly; convocation; gathering; meeting
turkey
be mixed up; mingle
unmixed
blend; mix; mingle
undiluted; neat
173
= tolótolo
koḅumó ̣
nịná koḅu
óbió koḅu
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
óbiókoḅu
kófíi
kófíimọ
kófolóo
kófolóomọ
kóforóo
kói1
kóinmọ
kóko
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
kokó1
v.t.
kokó2
kokobí
kókoin
kókoin agbará
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
fg
f
f
kokoríkokori
kokoróko
a.
n.m.
da
kokorókokoro
kokorókokoromọ
kókoróo
kókoróomọ
kólu
kómbolóo
kómbolóomọ
kondú
kondu-ímgba
kóngióo
kóngolóo
kóngoroḅa
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
a.
n.
kóngoróo
konkon
konkónmọ
konongú
a.
a.
adv.
n.pl.p p
ers.
v.i.
kóimọ
kói2
kói2
kóitọgụ
kóin
kopíi
cl
mix up; intermingle; interblend
sweep off urine from floor
treat yaws with mixture of oil and camwood;
salve; smear
cloth type
projecting (of buttocks and tails)
in a projecting way
tall and emaciated
in a tall, emaciated way
skinny (e.g. of fowls); with no meat
thump; bang
(cf. kásoróo)
(cf. kóin)
with a thump or bang
fond of crying (of child)
being fond of crying
cry-baby; one who cries childishly
slight thump or bang
with a slight thump or bang
be kept; be reserved; be concealed; remain in
(bed, room, house); remain indoors; (of food)
remain in good condition
keep; pay due regard to; observe; guard;
protect; maintain in proper order; own and
manage; reserve (thing for future time);
conceal
cacao tree and fruit
fish sp. trap
fish sp.; snapper sp.
snapper sp.
not deep; not fleshy (of fruit)
cock; chanticleer; male of domestic fowl;
(neut.) the crow of a cock
shallow
shallowly
shallow; not deep
shallowly
coal
hollow-eyed
with sunken eyes
waist; loins
waistbone; sacrum
lean; thin; not plump
oversized (of something hard and round)
death-rattle; rattling sound in throat
immediately before death
big and well-built (of a man)
oily; red
oilily; redly
people (collectively); inhabitants
peck with force
174
(cf. kói)
Lutjanus sp.
Lutjanus sp. cf.
agbára
<English coal)
(cf. kọpíị)̣
kopíimọ
koría
adv.
v.i.
forcefully (of peck)
agree; become, be, in harmony (with person);
get on with one another; suit the constitution
of; fit; be of right measure, size and shape for
(esp. of dress); coincide; agree with;
correspond to
accurate; correct; right; true
accuracy; correctness; coincidence
incorrect; not right; inaccurate; wrong; not
coincident; not matching
accurately; correctly; rightly; coincidently
righteous; just; upright; virtuous
righteousness; uprightness; virtuousness;
justness
bald; bare of hair or head feathers
baldly
rage; prevail; be violent; be at the height; be
plenty of (of wind, sea, cold, famine, battle,
flies, mosquitoes, etc.)
bear; produce, yield (tubers, corms, etc.) (of
root crops)
bear; carry; possess; occupy; dominate (of
demon or spirit)
koría
koría
koríagha
a.
n.
a.
koríamọ
koríayemịẹ
koríaye(mịẹ)
adv.
a.
n.
korikori
korikorímọ
koro1
a.
adv.
v.i.
koro2
v.t.
koro3
v.t.
koro4
v.t.
begin; commence (to do, doing, work)
tịtarịkoro
koro5
koro5
koro6
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
beginning
reach required length (in net weaving)
the required length of net
A. (of rain, dew, night, darkness) fall;
descend; drop; come down; rain; e.g.
koro6
B. drop from; cease from; alight from; come
down from; drop, come, fall, land, on; e.g.
koro6
C. fall in a trap, etc. e.g.
175
ó oru koroyó ‘he is
bearing a spirit’;
oru ó ghọ koroyó
‘a spirit possesses
him’
ó koro mọndịté ̣ ‘he
has begun to work’;
koro mịé ̣ ‘start to
do’
osuó koro ‘rain
falls’; eḅué koro
‘dew falls’; noin
koro ‘night falls’;
egilá koro
‘darkness falls’
ó fịrí ghọ
koroté ̣
̣
‘he has left work’; ó
sukúlu ghọ koroté ̣
‘he has left school’;
ó lụgú ̣ ghọ koro
‘he fell from a palm
tree’; fin-árụmị
koroté ̣ ‘the
aeroplane has
landed’; ikputumí ̣
ịní tịḅị
ghọ koro
̣
‘the stone fell or
landed on my head’
edí ghọ koro ‘fall
in a trap’; ịgbó` ghọ
koro ‘be caught or
be entangled in a
net’; ịdọnị ghọ
koro or kó ̣n ghọ
koro ‘fall in a fish
trap’; yoú ghọ koro
‘fall in wrestling’
koro6
koro6
koro6
koro ḅo
korómọ1
a.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
deep
A. deep; deepness; depth
B. throw or fall in wrestling
come down
fall towards (a direction; e.g.
korómọ2
v.t.
meet by chance or accidentally; e.g.
korómọ3
koromó ̣ya1
koromó ̣ya2
koromó1̣
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
resemble; be like
resemble one another
open one into another (rooms)
A. place; put in particular place; e.g.
koromó ̣ iri
tọn koromó ̣
koromó1̣
koromó1̣
v.p.
v.p.
misplace; mislay
decree; enact; destine; ordain
B. lay or produce (eggs) (as of bird or fish;
C. dismiss <service or school); cashier; e.g.
koromó2̣
v.t.
bathe with water; baptise e.g.
176
tịnmí ándụ
̣
koromọ ‘the tree
fell directly
opposite me’
á mu ó korómọ ‘I
met him by
chance’; arrive for
an event
míọ̣ ghọ koromó ̣
lay down, sacrifice
(one’s life); e.g. ịní ̣
numomị á wọ
koromọ ó prị ‘I lay
down my life for
him’
e.g. angá koromọ
fịrí ghọ
koromọ
̣
put down from
canoe, ship or
vehicle; disembark;
e.g. arụ ghọ
koromó ̣ lay down,
make fall down, put
on the ground (a
wrestler); e.g. yoú
ghọ koromó ̣ put
(hook and line) in
water for fish; e.g.
ḍaye koromó ̣ pẹlẹ
koromó ̣ cut down;
fell; ḅarásin
koromó ̣ let down;
let fall; dá koromó ̣
help to put down
mindi ékị
̣ koromó ̣
oil; lubricate; e.g.
pulo ékị
̣ koromó ̣
apply; put on
(medicine); e.g.
kumu ékị
̣ koromó ̣
ḅio koró
ḍosí koro
ḍugó koro
fụlọ ghọ koro
imgba ghọ koro
v.p.
n.
v.p.
adv.p
.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
land; disembark; go ashore
jump down
follow down; mind; bother about
be tasty in soup
be cut to the heart
kirí koro
odú ghọ koro
v.p.
v.p.
land; disembark; go ashore
deeply affected
sín koro
sú ̣n koro
tugu kóro
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
kororíi
n. &
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
& t.
v.p.
alight by accident; collapse; drop off; fall off
fall prostrate
fall behind; drop behind; lag behind; (of
liquid) settle
(make) strident sound (as) of bailing water in
small amounts; scrape
stridently; scrapingly
having a raised ridge (of nose)
with a raised ridge
bush rope for weaving screens
A. wait; tarry
koro timí
koroyọ
ḅege koro
ḅió koro
kororíimọ
kóroróo
kóroróomọ
korú
koru
timí koru
koru
korúya
noin koru
kóti
kótíi
kótíimọ
kótikóti
kótikótimọ
kótoḅáa
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.p.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kótoḅáamọ
kótokóto
adv.
a.
kótokótomọ
mịé ̣ kótokótomọ
kótokpóo
adv.
v.t.
a.
kótokpóomọ
kótoróo
kótoróomọ
kóu
kóu
kóumọ
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
koruḅọ
stay put
deep; deep place; abyss
fall down
deep down
v
lit. "be affected to
the bone";
lit. "affected to the
flesh";
await; bide
B. watch; remain awake for a purpose; be on
the watch; keep watch; be vigilant; exercise
protecting care over; guard
watcher; watchman; guardian
wait for one another
keep watch; keep vigil
coat
projecting (of tails)
in a projecting way
flapping (of tail when fowl, etc., runs)
in a flapping way
tall, well-built, and upright (as of large bird,
animal, or person)
in a tall, well-built, upright way
caustic (of concentration of liquid); biting;
pungent; very hot
pungently; caustically
make pungent or hot
fairly tall, well-built, and upright (e.g. of cock
or person)
in a well-built, upright way
emaciated; lean and tall
in an emaciated way
give forth sound (as) of cutting with an axe
sound of chopping with an axe
177
<English coat)
(cf. kófíi)
(cf. kó ̣tịkó ̣tị)
kó ̣
v.i.
kó ̣mọ
kọmó ̣
kọmó ̣prị
adv.
v.t.
n.
kó ̣ye
kó ̣yọ
kọḅá
kọḅátụa
kó ̣ḅịlíị̣
kó ̣ịkó ̣ị
kọkó ̣
kọkó ̣ fị
kọkọ
n.
n.
n.
a.
a.
v.i.
kọkọákọkọ
kọkó ̣nẹḅénẹ
̣
kọkọkọkọ
kọkọró ̣kó ̣ọ
kó ̣lọló ̣ọ
kó ̣lọló ̣ọ
kó ̣lọló ̣ọmọ
kó ̣lọmbíị̣
kó ̣lọmbíị̣
kó ̣lọmbíịmọ
̣
1
kó ̣n
adv.
adv.
adv.
n.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
adv.
kó ̣n1
kó ̣n2
remain; be left over or behind after
abstraction; be stranded
over; in excess; in addition; besides; more
leave over or behind
fathoms of twine left over at each end of line
and hook for drawing up the weight or sinker
or trawl-anchor
remainder; surplus
remainder; surplus
hooked stick
hooked (of stick)
hooked; sickle-shaped; falciform; falcate
hesitate; delay
only in
capture a piece in draughts
at all; in any degree; (N .B. used to express
doubt and regret);
as I was saying
if at all that ...
same as kọkọ
crow of a cock
nerveless; feeble
nervelessness; feebleness
feebly; nervelessly
curved; sickle-shaped
curl up; coil up
in a coiled-up way
A. pick up; lay hold of and take up; lift up;
collect; gather; e.g.
B. acquire; have; possess; e.g.
v.t.
A. engage in trade or industry; e.g.
178
(pl. kó ̣yaị)
e.g. wa kọkọ
bíyannyú
̣
̣ aán?
‘shall we meet at
all?’ érị
̣ kọkọ
olótuḅei aán? ‘am I
the champion at
all?’
fịní kọn
‘collect
̣
firewood’; ịnyan
kó ̣n ‘collect palm
fronds’; ịsẹmi kó ̣n
‘gather
periwinkles’; tịn
kó ̣n ‘pick up or
take up a stick’;
kó ̣n bọ ‘fetch; go
for and bring back’;
kó ̣n sin ‘carry
away; pick off’
ala kó ̣n ‘acquire
wealth’; ḍawọị kó ̣n
‘have a dream’;
ịngọ kó ̣n ‘possess
wealth’
ḅoú kọn ‘engage in
fishing’; mọndị
kọn ‘engage in an
enterprise’; ọká
kọn ‘engage in
carpentry’; pirí kọn
kó ̣n2
‘engage in
farming’; tuḅo kọn
‘engage in trade’
n.
any industry or trade; enterprise; business,
especially mechanical or mercantile
employment carried on as a means of
livelihood or profit
B. engage in habitual murder; e.g.
kó ̣n2
p
kó ̣n3
kó ̣n4
kó ̣n5
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
kó ̣n5
kó ̣n6
n.
v.i.
fg
kó ̣n7
kọndọ
n.
a. &
n.
n.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.m.f
.
a.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.pl.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
v.i.
ap
niníkọnḅọ
kọndọ-anga
kọndọḅara
kọndọḅara
kọndọḅara
kọndọfí ̣
kọndọfịḅọ
kondó ̣mọ
kọndọ sụgịrị
kọndọsụgịrị
kọndú ̣
omonikọndụ
kọngó ̣
kọngọ-ásịnya
kọngó ̣ kụrọ
kọngó ̣ nụngalamọ
kọngọló ̣kọngọlọ
kó ̣ngọló ̣ọ
kó ̣ngọló ̣ọ
kó ̣ngọló ̣ọmọ
kọnịkọní ̣
kọnịkọnịmọ
kọpíị̣
kọpíịmọ
̣
kó ̣pụ
kó ̣pụtịḅị
kọpụ
kọpụ
kọpụ
kó ̣rị
niní kọn engage in
piracy (usually
implies habitual and
stealthy murder)
murderer
entertain with hospitality; receive hospitably;
speak (a proverb);
dam; block up; impede; shut in; e.g.
fish-trap;
graze (of cattle); feed (of other animals and
birds)
trunk of elephant
left
e.g. igoni ékị
̣ kó ̣n
e.g. kaḅú ̣ kọn
nụnọ kọn ‘dam a
creek (partially, to
trap fish’
same as ịdọnị
left side
left-hand side
left hand
leftward; leftside
left-handed
left-handed person; lefthander
d
not straightforward; awkward; clumsy
have dysentery
dysentery
playing card
card second to the queen
neck
jugular vein
be stiff-necked
crane; stretch neck
act nervelessly
feeble; nerveless
feebleness; nervelessness
feebly; nervelessly
punctilious; attentive to petty formality
punctiliously
peck forcibly
forcefully (of peck)
cup
cupful
be full (of tide)
full (of tide)
full tide
A. be arrested, caught, captured, held, seized;
179
(cf. kopíi)
<English cup)
kó ̣rị
kó ̣rị
kó ̣rịmọ
kó ̣rị
kó ̣rị
kọrí ̣
kọrí ḅ
̣ o
kọrí k
̣ igí
kọrí m
̣ ọndịmọ
lá kọrí ̣
príkọrí
̣ ye
̣
ye ékị
̣ ọrí ̣
̣ prí k
kọrí ̣
be entangled
B. be intoxicated; be drunk
intoxicated; tipsy
tipsily
C. catch on; be ignited; light up (of
combustible or fire)
D. be seasoned (of salt in soup)
A. arrest; catch; capture; hold; seize; take
hold; intercept motion of; apprehend; grasp;
check suddenly (breath); perceive with senses
or mind (meaning, sound, tune); maintain,
assert as true (opinion or statement)
fetch; arrest
detain; keep in confinement
guide; lead
overreach; outwit; circumvent; entrap
mortgage; hostage; security; pledge
mortgage; pledge; pawn
B. catch; receive; be infected with (a cold, a
fever, hunger, etc.) e.g.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
C. intoxicate; excite; exhilarate beyond selfcontrol; surfeit;
D. act as nursemaid; nurse; have charge of
tend woman in child birth
midwife
wet- or dry-nurse
E. betroth; engage; affiance; bind by promise
of marriage;
F. (idiomatic) eat
G. (idiomatic) dress up properly (of costume)
exhausting; fatiguing; tiresome; wearisome;
weary
grow weary; tire; be exhausted with
fatigue; weariness after exertion; exhaustion
tireless
exhaustingly; tiringly; wearisomely; wearily
ghost to frighten a child; bogeyman
drive; steer (canoe, boat, vehicle); conduct;
guide; lead; direct (one’s course or self)
misguide; mislead
ignite; brighten;
kọrí ̣
kọrí ̣
ịrá kọrị
ịrákọrịḅọ
tó ̣gụkọrịḅọ
kọrí ̣
v.p.
n.f.
n.f.
kọrí ̣
kọrí ̣
kọrịkọrí1
a.
kọrịkọrí1
kọrịkọrí1
kọrịkọrígha
̣
kọrịkọrímọ
̣
2
kọrịkọrí ̣
kọrịmó1̣
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
kọrịmó ̣ iri
kọrịmó2̣
v.p.
v.t.
kọrịmó3̣
kọrọ
alakọró
ḅoúkọrọ
kesikọrọ
v.t.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
t
t
t
t
season; make palatable by introduction of salt
piassava or raffia hookeri palm
“king” raffia palm
palm
palm
180
oḅogú kọrí;̣
ọmó ̣ụn kọrí;̣ affect;
attack; excite strong
desire; e.g. munú
kọrí ̣
e.g. irú kọrí ̣
e.g. tó ̣gụ kọrị
e.g. ịyọrọḅọ kọrí ̣
fẹngụ kọrịmó ̣ fan
(fire) to make
flames’; ofuro
kọrịmó ̣ ‘blow up
(fire) to make
flames’
raffia hookerii
raffia vinifera
raffia hookeri
kọrọ-ẹgbẹgbẹrịḅa
kọrọkọró1̣
kọrọpembu
kọrọ tugurumó ̣
kọrọtugurumọye
kọrọkọró2̣
kọrọkọró ̣mọ
kọrọrọkó ̣tị
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
adv.
n.m.
kó ̣sị
v.i.
kọsịmó ̣
v.t.
kọsí ̣
kọsị1
kọsị2
kó ̣tị
kó ̣tịkó ̣tị
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
a.
kpongbo1
kúḅu
kúḅuye
kuḅu1
kuḅufíndi
kuḅu2
kuḅu sú ̣n
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
kuḅusụnḅịtẹ
kuétekuéte
kuétekuéte
kuétekuétemọ
kugu
kukuínduku
n.m.
a.
v.i.
a.
n.m.
n.
kukurí
v.i.
kukúrukukúru
kukúrukukúrumọ
kule
nú ̣a kule
nú ̣akuleye
nú ̣akuleye
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.
kulefí ̣
kúlelíi
kúlelíimọ
kulelíkulelíi
kulelíkulelíimọ
kumbú1
kumbú2
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
a.
kumbú2
kumbúmọ
n.
adv.
b
b
bp
cr
to
coils on the stem of raffia palm
full of, abounding in, raffia palms
raffia palm frond
set stick on stem of raffia palm for climbing
stick for climbing raffia palm
gaudy; gorgeous; richly coloured; ornate
gaudily; gorgeously
bird sp.; hammerkop
rot; decay; break to pieces; be crashed or
smashed
cause to rot; make rotten; shatter; smash;
crash
shatter; smash; crash
beat, thrash, properly
eat properly
court
flapping (of tail of small creature when
running)
vow; take oath; promise solemnly
vow; oath
fathom; deeping
breadth; broadness; width
bosom; breast; tit; boob
shroud; cover or clothe the bosom of corpse
with cloth
shroud; sheet or cloth for covering a corpse
hasty; hurried
move hurriedly
hastily; hurriedly
pitcher; water-pot; ewer
sweet potato
speak with caution, trying to hide part of the
truth
grope, search blindly
gropingly
greet; hail; salute; thank
make thank-offering
thank-offering
title; personal appellation, hereditary or not,
denoting or implying grade, status; club
nickname
titled
slimy
slimily
slimy
slimily
axe; chopping tool
short; not tall; not long; concise; brief; curt;
not far-reaching
shortness
shortly; concisely; briefly; curtly
181
Scopus umbretta.( =
anénde)
<English court)
cf. indo3, ḅiótugu
Ipomoea batatas
(Convolvulaceae)
(cf. kú ̣lẹlíị)̣
mịé ̣ kumbumó ̣
v.p.
kumú
kumú gụọ
n.
v.p.
tr
kumúgụọḅọ
p
kún1
kún2
n.m.f
.
v.t.
n.
kuna
kúne
kune
kune
kunefá
kunemó1̣
kunemó2̣
kunemó3̣
kunemọ-éne
kunemó ̣mị
kune sin
kunesin
tịnkune
kúngelée
v.t.
v.i.
a.
n.
a.
v.t.
a.
n.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
kungu
kunú
n.m.
a.
kunú
kunumó ̣
kuopúu
kuopúumọ
kúorúu
kúorúumọ
kúrepepe
kúru
kuru
kurukiri
kurupagara
kúrukúru
kurukuru
kurukuru
kurukuruḅou
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
a.
n.
n.m.
kurukuruḅọ
n.m.f
.
v.i.
& t.
kurúru
i
b
t
b
co
co
b
contract; decrease; abbreviate; abridge; lessen;
shorten
medicine; drug; spell; charm
make medicine with bad intent to harm;
practise sorcery
sorcerer; enchanter
braid; plait; pleat; interweave (hair, etc.)
period of tide when day dawns while water is
still flowing full
order; bid; command
end; come to an end
extreme; last; outermost
end; limit; climax
endless; infinite; eternal; without end
end; bring to an end
extreme; outermost; last; final; latter
end; extremity; climax; very end
last day; day of judgment
finally; lastly; in the end
clean up anus of corpse
customary clean-up of anus of corpse at death
stub; stump of tree
(of stomach) stodgy; heavy; filling; bulging
(due to much food)
jigger
rank; rancid; stale; foul-smelling; insipid;
musty (of food, news, etc.)
become foul-smelling or stale
make stale
(of pulling) pull stridently
stridently
dull by nature; stupid
stupidly; dully
blue-spotted wood-dove
tree sp.
plank in general; blackboard
floor of planks
piece of sawn plank or timber
white-faced owl
black; negroid
black; blackness
bird sp.; black heron
black person; N egro
mourn; feel sorrow or regret (for, over, dead
person, lost thing, loss, misfortune, etc.);
182
(same as seriḅá)
Tunga penetrans
Turtur afer
Lophira alata
Ptilopsis leucotis
Egretta ardesiaca;
but not a local bird?
Perhaps the adult
dark morph of the
western reef egret,
Egretta gularis (cf.
kịánkururu;
ogbokó; pịnáḅou)
kurúru
kúsa
kusi
kusi-ịmgbọ
kúsukúsu
kúsukúsu
kúsukúsumọ1
kúsukúsumọ2
kusukusú
kúuku
n.
a.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.m.
kụatụrụ
n.m.
kụẹlíị̣
v.i.
kụẹlíịmọ
̣
kụẹríị̣
adv.
v.i.
kụẹríịmọ
̣
kú ̣gain
kú ̣gala
kụgó ̣
kụgọ-ímbi
kụgó ̣ púu
opukụgó ̣
adv.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
kụgụ
kụkara
kú ̣kịrị
kụkịrí ̣
kụkụḅaị
kụkụḅaị
kụkụḅaímọ
̣
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
kụkụḅaịye
kú ̣kụlú ̣ụ
kú ̣kụrú ̣ụ
kú ̣kụrú ̣ụmọ
kụla
n.
a.
a.
adv.
n.
kú ̣lakú ̣la
kú ̣lakú ̣lamọ
kú ̣lala
a.
adv.
n.
kú ̣lẹlíị̣
kú ̣lẹlíịmọ
̣
kụlẹlíkụlẹlị
̣
kụlẹlíkụlẹlịmọ
̣
kụlụkụlụ
kụlụkụlụ
kụmá
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
fr
fr
b
show conventional signs of grief for period
after person’s death; sorrow for (dead person,
thing)
mourning
plentiful (of hair)
cashew plant and fruit
cashew nut
loose; uncombined; hanging free; morally lax
become loose
loosely
make loose
come loose (of hair, etc.)
cuckoo; wood-pigeon
keg; small barrel (especially for gun-powder);
hence
readily do something for somebody with a
motive underneath
readily
readily agree
f
f
t
readily
unidentified fish sp. (‘he-goat fish,)
king of fish; spadefish
scrotum
testicle
(of male) reach age of puberty
orchitis (of testicle); scrotitis or scrotocele (of
scrotum)
stretch of land, etc., where something abounds
landslide under water
be eroded
gnaw; erode; chip
real; actual; true; sincere; correct; honest
reality; actuality
really; actually; truly; sincerely; honestly;
correctly
fact; fidelity; honesty; truth; truthfulness
(of forehead) protrusive; bulgy
tight; close-fitting; having little space
tightly
tree sp. with medium-sized leathery leaves,
and its fruits
strewn; scattered
scatteringly
intestinal mucus; slime on body of fish and
reptiles; snail’s slimy secretion,
slimy
slimily
slimy
slimily
ebb completely; decline
dry ebb of tide
abstain from; refrain from
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family Cuculidae;
Columba palumbus
fọú ̣n kụatụrụ ‘keg
of powder’
(cf. next word)
(cf. preceding
word)
?family Mullidae
Chaetodipterus sp.
e.g. osi-ákụlala
(cf. kúlelíi)
ḅurú kụma
ḅurúkụma
indo kụma
indokụma
indo kụmamó ̣
-kụma
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
suf.
kú ̣mbụlú ̣ụ
kụmọ
kú ̣n
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
a.p.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
kú ̣ngha
tọrú ̣ kụn
kú ̣na
a.
v.p.
a.
kú ̣na
v.i.
kú ̣na
kú ̣namọ
kụnẹní ̣
kụnẹnímọ
̣
kú ̣ngẹléẹ̣
kú ̣ngụkú ̣ngụ
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
kú ̣ngụkú ̣ngụ
kụnú ̣
kụnú ̣
kụnú ̣
kụnú ̣mọ
kụnụmó ̣
kụnụpuló
kú ̣ọ
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
kú ̣ọ síin
kụó ̣
v.p.
v.t.
kụó ̣mọ
kụó ̣ sin
kụọrú ̣ụ
kụọrú ̣ụmọ
kú ̣ọsú ̣ụ
kú ̣ọsú ̣ụmọ
v.t.
v.p.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
kụmọḅa
kụmọ esinmó ̣
kụmọpẹịḅó ̣
refrain from food
abstinence from food
refrain from sucking; be weaned
weaning
wean
not. negative of imperatives
p
p
small-mouthed
man; human being; person; the human race;
one
manslaughter; (loosely) murder
awful; frightful; horrible
man-eater; cannibal
be polite out of respect; shun, avoid (out of
respect); keep clear of
disrespectful
avoid out of respect
shy; easily startled; timid; avoiding
observation; bashful; coy; uneasy in company
boggle; start with fright; be shy; hesitate;
fumble; be awkward
shyness
shyly
slimy
slimily
stodgy (of stomach)
shilly-shally; vacillate, hesitate to act or
choose one’s course; be undecided
vacillation; shilly-shallying
fragrant; sweet-smelling; savoury
emit sweet smell; smell sweet or fragrant
fragrance; pleasant or sweet smell
fragrantly
cause to smell sweet
special Grade A oil; perfume
be effaced, erased, obliterated, burnished,
expunged
be rubbed out
clean; erase; expunge; wipe; rub out;
obliterate; make dry; polish; make smooth by
friction; burnish; efface
wipe on (something)
erase; wipe away, off, out; expunge
dull; sluggish; slow-moving
dully
having small buttocks or hunkers; flat
flatly
184
fiekụmáa ‘speak
not’, i.e. ‘do not
speak’; furukụmáa
‘steal not’, i.e. ‘do
not steal’;
esínkụma ‘fear
not’, i.e. ‘do not
fear’
(see under esinmó ̣)
lit. "avoid face";
kú ̣péẹ̣
kú ̣péẹmọ
̣
kú ̣pẹréẹ̣
kú ̣pẹréẹmọ
̣
kụra
kụraḅọgọ
kụraye
ḅoyo kụra
ḅọgọtẹ kụra
mí k
̣ ụra
pí k
̣ ụra
kụraịkpalịkpalị
kú ̣rẹkú ̣rẹ
kú ̣rẹkú ̣rẹmọ
kụrẹkụré ̣
kụrịkíkụrịkị
̣
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
n.
n.p.
n.p.
n.p.
n.p.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
kụrịkíkụrịkịmọ
̣
1
kụrịpíkụrịpị
̣
kụrịpíkụrịpịmọ
̣
kụrịpíkụrịpị
̣
kụrịpíkụrịpịmọ
̣
kụrịríị̣
kụrịríị̣
kụrịríịkụrịrí
ị̣
̣
kụrịríịkụrịrí
ị̣
̣
kụró ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
a.
kụró ̣
n.
kụró ̣ḅara
kụró ̣ḅọ
kụró ̣ḅọ-imgba
adv.
n.m.f
.
n.
kụrọḍugó
kụrọ-éfẹrụ
̣
kụrọ-éwụ
̣
kụrọfịrí ̣
kụrọ-irú
kụrọjóko
kụrọkirí
kụrọmindí
kụrọmó1̣
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
adv.
d
t
undersized; dwarfish
dwarfishly
undersized
in an undersized way
year; age
old (of crop, book, etc.)
smallpox; variola
coming year
last, past year
this year
next year
antler deer
active; brisk
briskly; actively
get up briskly
scraggy; scanty (of vegetation, hair, etc.);
meagre
scraggily; scantily; meagrely
scanty (of vegetation, hair, etc.); meagre
scantily; meagrely
scratch body in quick, sharp strokes
in quick sharp strokes
make a gnawing sound
gnawing sound (as of rat)
make a gnawing sound repeatedly
repeated gnawing sound
strong; vigorous; drastic; violent; firm;
formidable; fermented (of wine); hard; stiff;
rigid; scarce (of food); laborious, toilsome (of
work); acute (of disease); energetic; forcible;
powerful; strenuous; well; in good health;
austere; harsh; terse; severe; stern; strict;
rigorous; vehement
physical ability; energy; force; vigour;
strength; power; impetus; violence; military
power or strength; hardness; firmness;
stiffness; rigidity; influence; scarcity (of food)
strongly
strong person
tree sp.
Ouratea flava
(Ochnaceae)
noise; loud outcry
strong wind; gale; wind storm
strong current (of air)
labour; toil
strong drink; alcohol
virulent animosity
firm ground; foundation (of building)
current (of water)
drastically; strongly; vigorously; violently;
firmly; formidably; stiffly; rigidly;
laboriously; acutely; energetically; forcibly;
powerfully; strenuously
185
kụrọmó2̣
kụró ̣-nama
v.t.
n.m.
kú ̣rọn’ásawọ
kụrọpọgó ̣
kụró ̣toi
ḅarákụrọ
kpó ̣ kụrọmọ
mịé ̣ kụrọmó ̣
n.pl.
n.
n.
a.
v.p.
v.p.
odúkụró ̣
tọrú ̣kụrọ
tuḅokụró ̣
kụsa
kụsakụsá
a.
a.
a.
v.t.
a.
kụsakụsámọ
kụsẹkụsé ̣
kụsẹkụsémọ
̣
kú ̣sẹréẹ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kú ̣sẹréẹmọ
̣
kụsị
kú ̣tẹkú ̣tẹ
kụtẹkụté ̣
kú ̣ụ
kwakwa
kwakwáa-ikereḅu
kwékwẹ
̣
kwẹkwẹ
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
a.
n.
v.i.
a.
m
co
cr
harden; strengthen; stiffen; influence
leopard; ‘tiger’
iron rods kept in front of shrine
loud tone or voice
athletics
strong (of physical strength)
make fast; fasten strongly
make firm; treat seriously; confirm; fortify;
make well
energetic; well
taking by force; piratical
dear; costly; high-priced
lacerate; tear
unkempt; untidy; dishevelled; ruffled;
uncombed
untidily
ragged; torn; frayed
raggedly
meagre and emaciated (as a bunch of
plantains or a sickly person)
meagrely; very much emaciated
eat palm fruits as birds do; peck
fiddle (of children); make aimless movements
tiny
tire; be fed up
red; scarlet
purplish cocoyam
prate; prattle
prating; prattling
Panthera pardus.
lit. strong animal’.
cf. sírị̣
cf. ákparígwe)
KP.
kpá1
v.t.
shave hair round the sides of head with razor
blade
kpá2
kpáa1
kpáamọ1
kpáa2
hold stern of canoe steady with paddle
easy; quick
easily; quickly
crackle; creak
kpáamọ2
kpáakpáa
v.t.
a.
adv.
n. &
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
kpáakpáa
kpáakpáamọ
kpáakpée
kpáakpéemọ
kpaḅúu
kpaḅúu
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
with a creak
flutter; flap wings; go about restlessly; quiver;
shiver; shudder; vibrate; tremble with
excitement
flutter; shudder; quiver
with a flutter; shudderingly
quick (unexpectedly)
quickly (unexpectedly)
snap; break with sharp crack (of larger object)
snap; crack
186
tịḅị kpá; pare, trim,
cut away irregular
parts of wood (in
canoe-carving)
e.g. arụ kpá
kpaḅúumọ
kpaḅú ̣ụ
adv.
v.i.
kpaḅú ̣ụ
kpaḅú ̣ụmọ
kpádugúu
kpagagáa
kpagagáa
kpagagáamọ
kpagagóo
kpagagóomọ
kpái
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
v.i.
kpái
kpáimọ
kpáị
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpáị
kpáịmọ
kpáịkpáị1
kpáịkpáị2
n.
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
kpáịn1
kpáịn1
a.
v.i.
kpáịnmọ1
kpáịn2
adv.
v.i.
kpáịnmọ2
kpáịnkpáịn
kpáịnkpáịn
kpáịnkpáịnmọ
kpaịnkpụtụ
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
kpakamúu
v.i.
kpakamúu
kpakamúumọ
kpakaráa1
kpakaráamọ1
kpakaráa2
kpakaráamọ2
kpakarákpakara
kpakarákpakaram
ọ
kpákiríi
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
kpákiríimọ
kpákị
kpákíị̣
kpákíịmọ
̣
kpákịríị̣
kpákịríịmọ
̣
kpáko1
adv.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
with a loud snap
snap; break with sharp crack (of smaller
object)
snap; crack
with a snap
stodgy; bulging (belly)
creak; make harsh noise as of unoiled hinges
creak
with a creak
bite or sting sharply
sharply (of bite)
bang; make sound of explosion as of gun,
thunder, etc.
bang
explosively
clap; slap; make explosive noise as of handpalms being struck together
clap; slap
with a clap or slap
grasshopper
flap; clap; chirp (as grasshopper); clap (as of
slipper)
dry; not yielding water; without water; careful
dry up completely; become completely dry by
evaporation or draining
dryly; carefully
spark; emit sparks of fire; clink; make sharp
ringing sound
with a spark or clink
fret; show angry impatience; fuss
fuss; bustle
fussily; fretfully
food; flour of unripe plantain mixed with oil
and cooked
palpitate; pulsate; throb (of heart and bosom)
with more than usual force or rapidity
palpitation; pulsation; throbbing
throbbingly
crackle; emit slight cracking sound
with a crack
move suddenly
moving suddenly
crackle continuously
continuously crackling
a.
m
stocky; thickset; short and strongly built;
hefty; sturdy
stockily; sturdily
very small kind of jar
very small (of size); stingy
in a very small way; stingily
dry; not plump
drily
red-capped mangabey
187
(cf. kpakóo)
Cercopithecus
kpáko2
kpákolo
kpákolóo
kpákolóomọ
kpakóo
kpakóomọ
kpákoróo
kpákoróomọ
kpákpa
n.m.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpákpa
n.
kpakpá
v.t.
kpákparáa
kpákparáa
kpákparáamọ
kpákulúu
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
kpákulúumọ
kpakulúu
adv.
v.i.
kpakulúumọ
kpákurúu
kpákurúumọ
kpákurúu2
kpákurúumọ
kpákụlú ̣ụ
kpákụlú ̣ụmọ
kpakụrú ̣kpakụrụ
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kpakụrú ̣kpakụrụm
ọ
kpákụrú ̣ụ
kpákụrú ̣ụmọ1
kpákụrú ̣ụmọ2
kpalaḅú ̣ụ
adv.
tọrú ̣kpalaḅú ̣ụ
kpaláị1
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
n.
v.i.
kpaláị2
kpaláịmọ
kpalakíị̣
kpalakíịmọ
̣
kpalakpalá
kpalakpalá
kpalakpalámọ
kpalí ̣
kpámbụlụ
kpámerée1
kpámeréemọ
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
any member not initiated into sẹkịapụ club
fall slowly downwards; sink in level; subside
sunken (of eyes)
with sunken eyes
bite or sting sharply
sharply (of bite)
bony; not fleshy (of head)
in a bony way
slide off as land-slide; break off as sliver;
sliver
landslide about to fall off; chink; peep-hole;
deep crevice
beat down mud or block wall for rebuilding;
prepare bamboo material for mat weaving
dry; bone-dry; hard
become dry by evaporation
drily
filled and a little distended (of stomach, bag,
etc.)
in a slightly distended way
come into contact with (something hard)
while chewing or e.g. when an engine is in
motion; jar (on something)
with a jar; jarringly
bulging (of something hard, e.g. kugu)
in a bulging way
emit deep creaking sound
with a deep creak
silent; not speaking
silently
dry (especially of food eaten without relish;
very dry (e.g. of leaves)
in a dry manner
dry
in a dry manner
dry; make very dry (e.g. fish
blink; wink; twinkle
wink, blink of eyelids
swing loosely and quickly; jerk (e.g. of
paralyzed leg, or grasshopper)
be completely finished
entirely, completely (finished)
paralyzed
in a paralyzed manner
finished; complete
be finished completely
entirely, completely (finished)
pilfer; pinch
wart
short and stunted (of person)
in a short and stunted way
188
torquatus
(slang)
(cf. kpagagóo)
kpámerée2
kpámeréemọ
kpámịníị̣
kpámịníịmọ
̣
mịé ̣ kpámịníịmọ
̣
kpamúu
kpamúu
kpamú ̣ụ
kpamú ̣ụ
kpamú ̣ụmọ
kpanáịn
kpanáịnmọ
kpanáịnkpanáịn
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
kpanáịnkpanáịnm
ọ
kpangbá
kpangbámọ
kpangba
kpangbakiri
kpángulúu
kpángulúu
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
n.
a.
v.i.
kpángulúumọ
kpángụlú ̣ụ
kpángụlú ̣ụ
adv.
a.
v.i.
kpángụlú ̣ụmọ
kpankpan
kpankpánmọ
kpapú ̣
kpapú ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
v.t.
kpapú ̣ pẹlẹ
v.p.
kpapú ̣pẹle
kpápụye
kpára
n.m.
n.
v.i.
kpará
v.t.
kpará
kparáye
kparaḅúu
n.
n.
v.i.
kparaḅúu
kparaḅúumọ
kparaḅú ̣ụ
kparaḅú ̣ụ
kparaḅú ̣ụmọ
kpárajáa
kpárajáamọ
kpárakpára
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
high up (of shaving round the head)
in a high-up manner (round head)
tight; close-fitting
tightly
tighten
palpitate; pulsate
palpitation; pulsation
snap; pluck, break, with sharp crack
snap; sharp crack
with a snap
prickle; tingle; spark
with a tingle
feel prickling or stinging sensation; fret; show
angry impatience
fussily; fretfully
to
f
to
ft
to
become dry
make dry
as in
dry land
stodgy; bulging; pot-bellied; swollen
be distended; swell out (of soft object; cf.
kpákurúu and next)
with bulging belly
swollen (of something small)
distend; swell out (of smaller object than
kpángulúu)
in a swollen way (of something small)
spotless, immaculate
spotlessly; immaculately
scissors; forceps
cut off or up with scissors; grasp or hold with
tongs; scissor
cut (something hard, e.g. wire) with
wirecutters
unidentified sea fish sp.
native type of tongs
be skewered; get stuck (in narrow space); be
rounded up (as suspect)
skewer; pin or pierce fish or meat with stick
or iron for drying or cooking; gore; pierce
with horn or tusk; round up (suspects)
stick of pierced fish
skewer; pin of wood
snap, break with sharp crack (of larger
objects)
snap; sharp crack
with a snap
snap (of smaller objects)
snap
with a snap
lanky; tall and lean
in a tall and lean way
very swift (e.g. of ebbing tide)
189
e.g. indíkpara
(cf. kpaḅúu)
kpárakpáramọ
kparakpará
adv.
n.m.
kpárankpáran
kparankparan-áye
kpárankpáranmọ
kparapú ̣kparapụ
kparapú ̣kparapụ
kparapú ̣ụ
v.i.
n.pl.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
kparapú ̣ụ
kparapú ̣ụmọ
kpáraráa
kpáraráamọ
kpararáa
kpararáamọ
kpararákparara
kpáraróo
kpáraróomọ
kparasíi
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kparasíi
kparasíị̣
n.
v.i.
kparasíị̣
kparasíịmọ
̣
kparasíkparasị
̣
kpárikpári
kpárikpári
kpárrikpárimọ
kpárúu
kpárúumọ
kpásaláa
kpásaláamọ
kpasíi
kpasíi
kpasíimọ
kpasíị̣
kpasíị̣
kpasíịmọ
̣
kpatáa
kpatáamọ
kpatáị
kpatáị
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
& i.
n.
kpatáịmọ
kpatáịkpatáị
kpatáịkpatáị
kpátakáa
kpátakáamọ
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
f
very swiftly
sardine, at a certain stage of development
spark; throw off sparks
sparks
with sparks
snap, blink, wink, twinkle, incessantly
incessant snap, blink, wink, twinkle
snap; take instantaneous photograph; break
with sharp crack; blink; twinkle; wink
snap; crack; blink; wink; twinkle
with a snap
in a lanky manner
break lengthwise (of splits)
lengthwise (of splits)
apt to break lengthwise; full of cracks
lantern-jawed (of long and thin jaw)
in a lantern-jawed way
snap; break with sharp crack (as if heavily
trodden on)
snap; sharp crack
snap; break with sharp crack (as if lightly
trodden on)
snap; light crack
with a snap
brittle; fragile; easily snapped or shattered
move with undue haste; hurry
hurry; undue haste
hurriedly
corpulent; fat
corpulently
bony; all skin and bone; thin
thinly
snap; break or cut with sharp but loud noise
snap
with a loud sharp noise
snap; break or snap with sharp but light noise
snap
with a light snap
raise (e.g. heavy load) easily
easily
slap (person, etc.) with palm, or part lips
noisily in enjoyment of food; smack (lips)
smack; slight explosive report as of surface
struck with palm, or of lips parted suddenly
with a smack
smack continuously
continuous smacking of lips
soft and sticky
in a soft, sticky way
190
Sardinella
maderensis. cf.
afarụ1, búza,
gbódo2, ikerere,
kigbo
kpatakáa1
v.i.
kpatakáamọ1
kpatakáa2
kpatakáamọ2
kpátakpáta
kpátakpátamọ
kpátị
kpátị
kpátịmọ
kpatịmó ̣
kpatí ̣
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
kpatí ̣
kpátóo
kpátóomọ
kpáu
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpáu
kpáumọ
kpáụ1
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpáụ1
kpáụmọ
kpáụ2
kpáụn
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
kpáụn
kpáụnmọ
kpaú ̣n
kpaú ̣n
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
kpaụnmó ̣
kpaú ̣nmọ
kpáụụ
kpáụụmọ
kpawáị
kpawáịmọ
kpáwóo
kpáwóo
kpáwóomọ
kpawóo
kpawóo
kpawóo
kpawóomọ
kpé
kpée
v.t.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
& t.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
kpée
kpéemọ
kpeekpé
kpeekpémọ
kpeekpemó ̣
raise (e.g. heavy load) completely and
suddenly
completely and effortlessly
forget completely or entirely
entirely; completely
run unsteadily
quickly
narrow; tight; compact
narrow; become narrow
tightly; compactly
narrow; tighten
sting (mosquito, gnat, bedbug, etc.); pinch;
nip between tip of finger and thumb; smart;
rankle
sting; pinch; smart
knock-kneed; (of breast) rudimentary
in a knock-kneed way
bang; thud; fall with low dull sound; make
sound of explosion or the report of a gun
bang; thud
with heavy fall; with a thud
bang; make slight sound of explosion or the
report of a gun
slight bang
with a light report
keep silent
ring; give forth sound as of vibrating metal;
peal
ring; peal
resoundingly
carry (something) on one’s back
act of carrying (person or something) on the
back
tie on to someone’s back
close by, close to or close upon
silent; not speaking
silently
fall sharply
with a sharp fall
sunken (of eye, cheek)
be sunken
with sunken eyes
utter long loud doleful cry (of pain); howl
howl (of pain)
howling
with a howl
weave
thump; bang; bump
thump; bang; bump
with a thump, bang, or bump
wide apart
widely apart
make wide apart
191
kpéekpée
kpéekpée
kpéekpéemọ
kpéin
kpéinmọ
kpékée
kpékée
kpékéemọ
kpekéekpekée
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
shout loudly
loud (of shout)
loudly (of shout)
mute; silent
mutely; silently
lurch; stagger; tilt; suddenly lean to one side
lurch; stagger
with a lurch; lurchingly; staggeringly
waver; oscillate; vacillate; rock; swing like
pendulum; move to and fro on a fixed point
due to action of water, etc.
vacillatingly; waveringly
be irresolute or undecided between opinions
irresolute; undecided; hesitating
irresoluteness; irresolution
irresolutely; hesitatingly
too near edge; almost falling
in an almost falling manner
lurch; stagger; tilt; suddenly lean to one side
lurch; stagger
with a lurch; lurchingly; staggeringly
make series of lurches or staggers
continuous lurching
same as kpekelée
kpekéekpekéemọ
kpékekpéke
kpékekpéke
kpékekpéke
kpékekpékemọ
kpékelée
kpékeléemọ
kpekelée
kpekelée
kpekeléemọ
kpekélekpekéle
kpekélekpekéle
kpekerée
kpeki
adv.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n. &
v.i.
v.i.
kpeki
a.
near; close to, in time, etc.; e.g.
kpeki
adv.
near; at a short distance; e.g.
kpekpe
kpékperáa
kpékperáa
kpékperáamọ1
kpékperáamọ2
kpéngekpénge
kpéngelée
kpépu
kpépu
kpépu
kpépumọ
ḅịḅịkpépu
ḅịḅị kpépumọ
kpepú
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
a.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
kperekí
kperekí
kperekímọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
wide apart
tough; hard to break or cut; stiff; tenacious
become hard
toughly; stiffly
make hard (e.g. skin)
replete; filled; stuffed
fat and oversized (of head)
dumb; unable to speak
be dumb
dumbness; aphasia
dumbly
dumbness
make dumb
hold something in the mouth without chewing
or swallowing; make dumb
bang; meet with force or sudden impact
bang; collision; impact
with a bang or impact
draw near to; approach; e.g.
192
(cf. kpékẹlé
ẹ)
̣
̣
wa mu ama ná
kpekité ̣ ‘we have
drawn near the
town’
í na
̣ kpekinimi
warímị
̣ sụó ̣ọ ‘get
into the house near
me’
ifiémị ḅo kpekité ̣
‘the time has drawn
near’
kperepúu
kperepúu
kperepúumọ
kpetekáa
kpetekáamọ
kpéterée
kpéteréemọ
kpeti
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpetimó ̣
v.t.
kpewée
kpewée
kpewéemọ
kpé ̣
kpé ̣
kpémọ
̣
kpéẹ̣
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
adv.
kpéịkpé
ị̣
̣
v.i.
kpéịkpé
ị̣
̣
kpéịn
̣
kpẹkẹlẹ
a.
v.t.
adv.
kpékẹlé
ẹ̣
̣
kpékẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
kpékẹré
ẹ̣
̣
kpékẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
kpẹkịkpẹkị
kpẹkịkpẹkị
kpẹkịkpẹkị
kpẹkịkpẹkímọ
̣
kpékú
̣ ̣ụ
kpékú
̣ ̣ụmọ
kpérẹkpé
rẹ
̣
̣
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpérẹkpé
rẹ
̣
̣
kpérẹkpé
rẹmọ
̣
̣
kpẹrụkpẹrụ
n.
adv.
a.
kpétụkpé
tụ
̣
̣
kpétụkpé
tụ
̣
̣
kpéwé
̣ ẹ̣
kpiḅúu
kpiḅúumọ
kpígigíi
kpígigíimọ
kpíi1
kpíi1
kpíimọ1
kpíi2
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
bang, shut with noise or sudden impact
bang
with a bang
dauby; greasy; thick
daubily; greasily; thickly
dauby; greasy; thick
daubily; greasily; thickly
set; settle (of leg or bone after fracture or
dislocation)
bank up (fire for slow burning); cause to set or
settle
beat strongly
strong beating
with a strong beating
beat with sharp or light beating; crack
light beating
with light beating
never (with negative verb
e.g. ó kpéẹ̣ fịghá
‘he never ate’
knock lightly and repeatedly; talk too much;
prate
prattling
do or touch slightly
in time or quickly (with negative sentences);
ó kpẹkẹlẹ ḅoghá
e.g.
‘he did not come in
time (or quickly)’
too near edge; dangerously poised
(cf. kpékelée)
in a dangerously poised way
following closely (as child)
following closely
draw near to; approach
near, close to
closely
short; low; not high or tall
low, low down
chatter; talk quickly or smartly; sputter;
splutter
sputter; splutter; chatter
sputteringly
covered with protuberances (e.g. of scalded
skin) or shoots (e.g. of sprouting earth)
prattle; talk in childish manner
childish prattling; prattle
very close to the ground (of trees or people)
break with sharp crack (of larger objects)
with a sharp crack
bulging; heavy with child
heavily (of pregnant woman)
thump; bump
thump; bump
with a thump or bump
rush; stampede; engage in sudden flight or
hurried movement
193
kpíi2
kpíimọ2
kpíikpíi
kpíikpíimọ
kpíin
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpíin
n.
kpíinmọ
kpíkiríi
kpíkiríimọ
kpikpi
kpikpímọ
kpiliḅúu
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpiliḅúu
kpiliḅúumọ
kpilikpili
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpilikpili
kpilikpilímọ
kpílilíi
kpílilíimọ
kpimukpimu
kpimukpimu
kpimukpimúmọ
kpimúkpimúu
kpimúkpimúu
kpimúkpimúumọ
kpímúu
kpímúumọ
kpimúu
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpimúu
kpíniníi
n.
a.
kpíniníimọ
kpípúu
kpípúumọ
kpíri
kpirí
kpíridíi
kpíridíimọ
kpírikíi
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
kpírikíimọ
kpirikíkpiriki
kpirikíkpiriki
adv.
v.i.
n.
kpirikíkpirikimọ
kpírikpíri
kpírikpíri
adv.
v.i.
n.
rush; stampede; hurried flight
with a stampede or rush
full of jubilation (of crowd of people)
with jubilation
stamp; thump; bring down (foot, or stick)
heavily on ground
stamp; thump; heavy downward blow with
foot or stick
with a stamp (of foot)
stocky; thickset
stockily
replete; stuffed; filled
in a stuffed way
blink; shut the eyes for a moment and open
them as sign of contempt
blink (contemptuous)
with a blink
glide; pass by with smooth continuous
movement
glide
glidingly
greasy; dauby
greasily; daubily
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
pulsate; palpitate
throb; pulse
throbbingly
turgid; morbidly swollen
turgidly
pulsate; beat; throb; palpitate; expand and
contract by beats
pulse, throb
smooth; not wrinkled or hairy; not pitted or
scored
smoothly
robust; stout
robustly; stoutly
be caught
catch
overfull; heavy with child
heavily with fruit or child
dingy; dirty-looking; dull-coloured; dullwitted; opaque; swarthy
dingily; opaquely; swarthily
make a stampede; stampede
stampede; sudden fright and scattering of a
number of cattle; unconcerted movement of
many persons by common impulse
with a stampede
rush; run violently; flow fast
rush; violent or tumultuous advance; run or
flow
194
kpírikpírimọ
kpisíi1
kpisíi1
kpisíimọ1
kpisíi2
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpisíi2
kpisíimo2
kpitíi
kpitíimọ
kpịḅú ̣ụ
kpịḅú ̣ụmọ
kpíị̣
kpíị̣
kpíịmọ
̣
kpịkpị
kpịkpímọ
̣
mịé ̣ kpịkpímọ
̣
kpịlịḅú ̣kpịlịḅú ̣ụ
kpịlịḅú ̣kpịlịḅú ̣ụ
kpịlịḅú ̣kpịlịḅú ̣ụmọ
kpịlịḅú ̣ụ
kpịlịḅú ̣ụ
kpílịlí
̣ ị̣
kpílịlí
̣ ịmọ
̣
kpímụkpí
mụ
̣
̣
kpímụkpí
mụ
̣
̣
kpímụkpí
mụ
̣
̣
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
& i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
kpímụkpí
mụmọ
̣
̣
kpịmụkpịmú ̣
kpímú
̣ ̣ụ
kpímú
̣ ̣ụnị
kpịmụmó ̣
kpịngó ̣ọ
kpịngó ̣ọ
kpịngó ̣ọmọ
kpírịkí
̣ ị̣
kpírịkí
̣ ị̣
kpírịkí
̣ ịmọ
̣ 1
kpírịkí
̣ ịmọ
̣ 2
kpịrikíkpịrịkị
̣
kpịrikíkpịrịkị
̣
adv.
a.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
kpịrịkpịrị1
kpịrịkpịrímọ
̣ 1
2
kpịrịkpịrị
̣ 2
3
kpịrịkpịrị
̣ 3
kpịrímụkpịrí
mụ
̣
̣
kpịrịmú ̣kpịrịmụ
kpịrịmú ̣kpịrịmụ
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
with a rush
bump; thump
bump; thump
with a bump
stampede; engage in sudden flight or hurried
movement of people due to panic
stampede; panic flight
with a stampede
thickly and closely woven
thickly and closely
break with sharp crack (of smaller objects)
with a sharp crack
crackle; emit slight cracking sound
crackle
with a crackle
very tight
very tightly
make tight
blink incessantly; flash on and off
incessant blinking or flashing
with a blink
blink; look with eyes opening and shutting
blink
greasy; dauby
greasily
fidgety
fidget; move restlessly
fidget; bodily uneasiness seeking relief in
spasmodic movements; fidgetiness
with a fidget
very tight or taut
tight; closely held; fitting
tightly
tighten
nod
nod
noddingly; with a nod
very black; swarthy
swarthiness; blackness
swarthily
blacken
creak; make harsh noise
creak; harsh loud noise, as of unoiled bed,
hinge, etc.
creak; make harsh noise
with a creak
tight; closely fastened
tightly
char; burn to charcoal; blacken with fire
in a charred way
fidgety
fidget
fidgetiness
195
kpịrịmú ̣ụ
kpịrịmú ̣ụmọ
kpịrịmú ̣ụmọ
1
kpịrịsíkpịrịsị
̣
1
̣
kpịrịsíkpịrịsịmọ
̣
2
̣
kpíụ̣
v.i.
adv.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
kpíụmọ
̣
adv.
kpíyó
̣ ̣ọ
kpíyó
̣ ̣ọmọ
kpó
a.
adv.
v.t.
kpó
n.
kpó mịé ̣
kpomó ̣
kpóḅili
kpoḅilimó ̣
kpokorokpokoró
kpokorokpokoróm
ọ
kpókoróo1
v.p.
v.t.
a.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
kpókoróomọ1
kpókoróo2
adv.
a.
kpókoróomọ2
adv.
kpókoróo3
kpókoróomọ3
kpokpó
kpokpomó1̣
kpokpomó2̣
kpokpo
a.
adv.
v.t.
& i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
kpokpo gboló
v.p.
kpóokpóomọ
kpókporokpo
kpókporóo
kpókporóomọ
kpólokíi
kpólokíimọ
kpólombíi
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
cut; cease; stop abruptly
abruptly
abruptly
brittle; apt to break; crisp; fragile; frail
brittleness; fragility; crispness
with crispness; brittly; frailly
grit; produce grating sound
(of sigh) deep-drawn; (of rain) heavy and
prolonged
in a deep-drawn way (of sigh); heavily (of
rain)
sticky (as of excess pomade)
stickily
coil; cause to twist up into circular or spiral
shape; fold; double (flexible thing) over upon
itself; wind; clasp; lay together and interlace
(arms); swathe; envelope; convolve; roll up
coil; length of coiled rope, wire, etc.; single
turn of coiled thing; fold; hollow between two
thicknesses; crease; line caused by folding
dive suddenly (of shoal of fish
fold up; curl; coil up
coiled; folded; twisted; convoluted
heap up; fold up; agglomerate
bold; well-marked; bigger in size, etc.
boldly; stoutly
chief; especial; exceptional; principal;
particular
chiefly; especially; principally; particularly
bold; well-marked; bigger in size; stout;
sturdy; hefty; strongly-built; stalwart;
doughty; valiant
boldly; stoutly; sturdily; heftily; stalwartly;
doughtily; valiantly
bleak, bare (of poverty); abject; despicable
miserably; bleakly
pick up; glean
collect in small quantities; scrape together
collect into (a receptacle)
piece of wood beaten to make an
announcement, declaration, or proclamation;
the announcement, declaration or
proclamation so made
make proclamation, announcement or
declaration
loudly as if making a proclamation
crowing (m.) cock
brawny; strong and muscular; thick (of rope)
thickly; strongly
crooked; deformed
crookedly
bent; curved
196
(cf. kokoróko)
kpólombíimọ
kpólu
kpolú
kpolúye
ogbó kpolúmọ
kpongbo1
kpongbo2
kpóngúu1
kpóngúu
kpóngúumọ
kpóo1
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpóokpóo
kpóo2
a.
v.i.
kpóo2
kpóomọ
kpórokíi
kpórokíimọ
kporokíi
kporokíi
kporokíimọ
kporokíkporoki
kporokíkporokimọ
kpórokpóro
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpórokpóro
kpórokpóromọ
kpórokúu
n.
adv.
a.
kpórokúumọ
kpóru
adv.
v.i.
kpórúu
kpótokóo1
kpótokóomọ
kpótokóo2
kpótokóomọ
kpotokpotó
kpotokpotómọ
kpóun
kpóunmọ1
kpoun
kpóunmọ2
kpó1̣
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
kpó ̣ ḅa
kpó ̣ḍigi
kpó ̣mọ
kpó ̣ tekelé
kpó2̣
v.p.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
v.i.
kpó ̣mọ
v.t.
b
in a curved way
be folded; be wrapped
wrap; enfold; fold
wrapper
fold together
bird sp.
dry land
snub (of nose)
idle; unoccupied; lazy; indolent
idly; indolently
be twisted up into circular or spiral shape;
coiled
creased; curly
give forth sound (as) of knocking or cutting
on something hard (e.g. on head, table, etc.)
knock
crooked; deformed
crookedly
strike against something
impact; collision
with an impact
untidily scattered (of objects inside house)
in an untidy, scattered way
patter; make rapid succession of drops (as
rain, tears)
pattering; stream (of tears)
with a patter
massive and dull (of person); too large (of a
cover)
in a massive, dull way
swell; grow bigger; dilate; distend; expand;
bulge out
swollen; dilated; distended; inflated; puffed
chief; especial; principal; particular
chiefly, especially
bold; well-marked
boldly; stoutly
bold; well-marked
boldly
resonant sound (as of gong)
resonantly
be completely finished
completely (finished)
moor; fasten or attach (boat or other floating
object) to permanent anchor; tie; bind knot;
tether
hang; suspend on gibbet
tether, rope
tie to
hang up; suspend
age; grow old; mature; ferment, sour (of palm
wine)
age; cause to grow old; stunt; dwarf; check
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kpó ̣tẹ
a.
ḅịḅịkpó ̣
ḅịḅị kpọmó ̣
ḅịḅịkpọmọye
kpó ̣ị
a.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
kpó ̣ị
kpọị
kpó ̣ịkpó ̣ị
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpọkí1̣
kpọkí2̣
kpọkịrí ̣
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
kpó ̣kịríị̣
a.
kpó ̣kịríịmọ
̣
kpó ̣kọló ̣ọ
kpó ̣kọló ̣ọmọ
kpó ̣kọró ̣ọ
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kpó ̣kọró ̣ọmọ
kpọkpọ
adv.
adv.
kpọlí ̣
kpọlọḅú ̣ụ
kpọlọḅú ̣ụmọ
v.t.
v.t.
& i.
adv.
kpọmbí ̣
v.t.
kpọmbí ̣
kpọmó ̣
kpó ̣n kpó ̣n
kpó ̣n kpó ̣n
kpọnọnó ̣
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
kpó ̣ọ
v.i.
kpó ̣ọ fi
kpó ̣ọfị
kpọrọkpọrọ
v.p.
n.
a.
kpọrọkpọrọ
v.i.
kpọrọkpọró ̣mọ
adv.
kpó ̣rọkú ̣ụ
kpó ̣rọkú ̣ụmọ
kpọrọnkpọrọn
a.
adv.
v.i.
growth or development of; mature; make sour;
cause to ferment
aged; old; lasting; mature; solid (of wood);
stunted; sour; fermented (of drink)
haughty and insolent
refresh mouth
dessert
patter; cause to make rapid succession of taps
on top of water or roof (as rain, etc.)
patter(ing)
to the point; to the purpose; exactly
talk in rapid mechanical way; talk glibly;
patter
take small pieces of meat while butchering
try and walk with a bad leg
dog; follow closely; track; pursue person
(with palaver)
lonely; solitary; companionless; lonesome;
(cf. kpó ̣kọró ̣ọ)
isolated
lonesomely; solitarily
hanging loose
in a loose-hanging way
lonely; (of belly) bulging out while whole
(cf. kpó ̣kịríị)̣
body is emaciated
in a lonely way; in a bulging manner
only; solely; nothing more or besides and that
is all
climb
put; add
mi
a little extra (added to something bought or
requested)
pinch, nip or squeeze between tips of fingers;
twitch; pull at, jerk at (person’s sleeve)
especially to call attention
pinch; twitch; nip; squeeze
very much
give forth sound (as) of musical drum
sound of drum
rub eyes, blink, etc., after sleep; e.g.
be moored, fastened or attached to permanent
anchor; be tied; be tethered
commit suicide by hanging
suicide by hanging
careful in movement (towards or away from)
object)
move towards person (of object drawn); move
with person (of live objects) without pause or
hesitation
with careful movement; without pause or
hesitation
dull; sluggish; slow-moving
dully
patter
198
tọrú ̣ kpọnọnọ ‘rub
eyes’
kpọrọnkpọrọn
kpọrọnkpọrọnmọ
kpó ̣rụ
kpó ̣rú ̣ụ
kpọsọkpọsó ̣
kpọsọkpọsó ̣mọ
kpọtọ
kpọtọkpọtó ̣
kpọtọkpọtó ̣mọ
kpó ̣tọkó ̣ọ
kpó ̣tọkó ̣ọmọ
kpọtọkó ̣mọ
kpó ̣tọpú ̣ụ1
kpó ̣tọpú ̣ụmọ1
kpó ̣tọpú ̣ụ2
n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
kpó ̣tọpú ̣ụmọ2
adv.
kpó ̣tọró ̣ọ
kpó ̣tọró ̣ọmọ
kpọtụ
kpó ̣tú ̣ụ
kpó ̣tú ̣ụmọ
kpúkée
kpúkéemọ
kpúkelée
kpúkeléemọ
kpukpu
kpukpu
kpúkpuru
a.
adv.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
kpúkukpúku
kpúkukpúku
kpúkukpúkumọ
kpúkulúu
kpúkulúumọ
kpúmée
kpúméemọ
kpúngulúu
kpúngulúumọ
íkpungúlusanị
kpuráa
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
kpuráa
kpuráamọ
kpúrakpúra
kpúrakpúramọ
kpurú
kpurukúkpuruku
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
kpurukúkpuruku
kpurukúkpuruku
mọ
kpururúukpururú
n.
adv.
patter(ing)
with a patter
be overfull (of stomach)
suffering from indigestion; not eupeptic
move slowly
with slow movement
small wooden musical drum accompaniment;
filthy; muddy
filthily
of thick consistency (of soup)
thickly
thicken; make thick (soup)
prepared so as to be thick (of food)
in a thick way (of food)
feel satiated in the throat due to much oil (of
food); be crowded, be in a swarm (of crowd)
in a satiated manner (of food in the throat); in
a thick way (of crowd)
messy (of mucus, etc.)
in a messy way
round basket with lid for keeping fish or fowl
dull
dully
pigeon-breasted
with a pigeon breast
pigeon-breasted
knock; rap; tap
knock; rap; tap
en bloc; in a lump; wholesale; en masse; in a
mass; all together
rattle dully
dull rattle
with a dull rattle
small and well-rounded (e.g. of cocoyam)
in a well-rounded way
pigeon-breasted
roundish; round
roundly; in a circular way
pepper with round fruits
bang; fall, shut, close with noise; throw down
negligently
bang
with a bang
cursory; hasty; hurried
hurriedly
cut down large trees on top of growing crops
rumble; make sound as of undersized leg in
rainboot
rumble
with a rumble
v.i.
rumble; make sound (as) of thunder, heavy
cr
199
see ekere
(same as kpúmée)
(same as kpúkelée)
u
kpururúukpururú
u
kpurúu
kpusúu
kpusúu
kpusúumọ
kputukputu
kputukputúmọ
kpútukúu
kpútukúumọ
kpúturu
kpúturuyọ
kputurú
n.
excl.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
kpúu1
kpúu1
kpúumọ1
kpúu2
kpúu2
kpúumọ
kpúu3
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
kpuwáa
v.i.
kpuwáa
kpuwáamọ
kpuwáakpuwáa
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpuwáakpuwáa
kpú ̣kéẹ̣
kpú ̣kéẹmọ
̣
kpú ̣kẹléẹ̣
kpú ̣kẹléẹmọ
̣
kpú ̣kpọ
kpụkpó ̣
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
kpụkpụ
kpụkpụ
kpụkpú ̣mọ
kpú ̣kpụrú ̣ụ
kpú ̣kpụrú ̣ụmọ
kpụkụkpụkú ̣
kpụkụkpụkú ̣
kpụkụkpụkú ̣mọ
kpú ̣kụlú ̣ụ
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
kpú ̣kụlú ̣ụmọ
kpú ̣méẹ̣
adv.
a.
kpú ̣méemọ
̣
kpú ̣ngụlú ̣ụ
kpú ̣ngụlú ̣ụmọ
kpụráa
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
cart, air in bowels, etc.
rumble
an abuse, insult
puncture; prick; pierce
puncture
with a puncture
dirty; foul; unclean; unchaste; soiled
dirtily
dirty
dirtily
be rumpled, wrinkled, creased
sprain; wrench
rumple; wrinkle; crease (fabric, garment, face,
etc.); sprain, wrench (ankle, wrist)
explode
explosion
with heavy explosion
fall with a thud
thud
with a heavy fall
flatulence; state of having gas in the
alimentary canal; constipation
thrash; beat with stick or whip or hand; spank;
beat the waves heavy
thrashing; beating; whipping; spanking
with a spank
keep beating or thrashing; keep beating the
waves; make way against wind or tide
continuous beating, thrashing
small and stunted
in a small and stunted way
slim but not stunted (e.g. of child)
in a slim, but not stunted way
be loosened
disentangle; extricate; loosen; strip off,
unfasten; untie; untwist; unmask; unravel
knock on door
knock
with a knock
stunted (e.g. of person or tree)
in a stunted way
rattle lightly
light rattle
with a light rattle
small (by comparison with larger objects of
same kind)
in a comparatively small way
pigeon-breasted (of small person); rounded
(of unweaned child’s stomach)
in a pigeon-breasted way; in a rounded way
small and roundish
in a small roundish way
thud (of small objects)
200
kpụráamọ
kpụráịn
kpụráịn
kpụráịnmọ
kpú ̣rụkéẹ̣
kpú ̣rụkéẹmọ
̣
kpụrụkú ̣kpụrụkụ
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
kpụrụkú ̣kpụrụkụ
mọ
kpụrú ̣rụkpụrú ̣rụ
kpụrú ̣rụkpụrú ̣rụm
ọ
kpụrụrú ̣ụkpụrụrú ̣
ụ
ụ
ụmọ
kpụsú ̣ụ
adv.
with a light thud
chink; twang
chink; twang
with a chink or twang
small (of person, especially child)
in a small way
crunching (e.g. of gravel); clinking (e.g. of
tightly-packed beads)
crunchingly; clinkingly
v.i.
adv.
hang trailing behind; straggle in rear
in a trailing manner
v.i.
rumble; purr
n.
rumble; purr
adv.
with a small rumble; with a purr
v.i.
kpụsú ̣ụ
kpụsú ̣ụmọ
kpú ̣tụ
kpú ̣tụmọ
kpú ̣tụkpú ̣tụ
kpú ̣tụkpú ̣tụmọ
kpụwáa
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpụwáa
kpụwáamọ
kpụwáakpụwáa
n.
adv.
v.i.
kpụwáakpụwáa
kpụwáị
n.
excl.
puncture; prick; pierce; punch; strike with
light blow
puncture
with a slight puncture, punch or light blow
compact; closely packed together
compactly
fizzy; sputtering
fizz; fizzle; make sputtering sound
fizz; fizzle; sputter
with a fizz
thrash, beat with stick or whip or hand, lightly
or sharply; beat the waves lightly
beating
with a light beating
keep beating or thrashing lightly; keep beating
the waves
continuous light beating
Serves you right!
L.
lá1
v.t.
A. reach; get as far as; attain to; arrive at
(specified point or object of destination);
succeed in affecting either simply or with the
hand or instrument or missile or influence
lá
láwọrio
láya
n.
excl.
v.t.
kirí la
tịḅị lá
v.p.
v.p.
act of reaching or attaining
serve you right! you deserve to be ill-treated!
come into contact with one another;
(euphemism) come together (of man and
woman)
‘reach ground’; fall; die
be of age
201
á dí-ene láté ̣ it has
reached my
birthday; ịnị ḍirímị
íb
̣ ̣ara láté ̣ your
letter has reached
me (lit. my hand)
lá1
lá1
a.
lá1
n.
lágha
a.
lamó1̣
lá1
adv.
lamó2̣
v.t.
tíọ̣ la1
ye ékị
̣ lamó ̣
yelá1
lá1
phr.
v.p.
a.
lá1
tíọ̣ la2
tóḅ ̣ara la
yelá2
B. meet; satisfy; be adequate; suffice; be
enough; be sufficient
sufficient; sufficing; adequate; enough;
competent
adequacy; sufficiency; enough; competence;
competency
inadequate; insufficient; not enough; not
sufficing
C. concern; relate to; affect
succeed in affecting or hitting with missile or
instrument
where does it affect you?
wound
wounded
D. be equal to (person or thing in quality,
number etc.)
E. amount to; come to; be equivalent to
how much is the cost?
how much is the cost?
precious; important; dear; costly; of great
non-material worth; high-priced
F. happen to; come upon
phr.
phr.
a.
lá1
lá2
v.aux
ought (expressing duty, rightness,
shortcoming, advisability, or strong
possibility)
láa1
láa1
láamọ
mịé ̣ láamọ
laa2
láḅaraláḅara
lagá
lagilagí
lágịlágị
lágịlágịmọ
lagịlagí ̣
lagịlagímọ
lágụlọ
láịláị
a.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
láịláị
láịláịkụmọ
n.
n.m.f
.
adv.
n.
a.
n.pl.
pale; pallid; anaemic; wan
paleness; pallor
palely; pallidly; wanly
etiolate; make pale
liver
anyhow; indiscriminately; promiscuously
needle (rare)
raw and blood-red
be restless; throb
restlessly; with a throb
intense; violent (sun)
intensely, violently
gall; bile; gall-bladder
nonsensical; heinous; idious; atrocious;
hateful; promiscuous
nonsense
villain; scoundrel; rascal
láịláịmọ
lala
lalálala
lálaḅá
h
nonsensically
black sedimentary mud
muddy
algae; slime on top of water
202
í ḷ aghá (it) does not
concern me
e.g. ye í ḷ átẹ
ẹḅẹḅáa if anything
should happen to
me
ị mịé ̣ la you ought
to have done; ị mịé ̣
la (fa) I don’t
blame you (i.e. it’s
not your fault
cf. ḅịtégbeinye
̣
láligbóo
lapụlapú ̣
lapụlapú ̣mọ
lé
a.
a.
adv.
v.t.
lée
a.
léemọ
léelée
léeléemọ
leferé
leferemó ̣
léferée
léferéemọ
légberée
legilegí
léke
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
n.
léke fẹngụ
lekée
lekéemọ
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
lékeléke
lékelékemọ
léketée
léketéemọ
leketélekete
leketéleketéemọ
lekulélekulé
lekulélekulémọ
lelégi
lelegí
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
lelegimó ̣
lelegimó ̣ tụa
lélúu
lélúumọ
lepulepú
lepulepu-áye
lepulepúmọ
léu
lé ̣
lé1̣
lé2̣
n.
v.p.
a.
adv.
a.
n.pl.
adv.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
v.i.
lẹmó ̣
lédị
̣ 1
lédị
̣ 2
légẹ
̣
légẹ
̣
inengi légẹ
̣
loló légẹ
̣
nẹmú ̣ légẹ
̣
v.t.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
fatless (of fish)
succulent; immature
succulently
spy; keep close and secret watch (upon
person, movements etc., into secrets etc); peep
into
fast; rapikd; quick-moving; sPeedy; swift (of
motion)
rapidly; swiftly (of motion)
unsteady
unsteadily
fleet; glide away; be transitory; move swiftly
cause to move swiftly
fleeting
fleetingly
naked; bare; nude; unclothed; undraped
raw and slimy-looking
swing; seat slung by ropes or chains for
swinging
swing (a swing)
be swung
toppling over; swoopingly (of birds); with a
swing
unsteady; restless
unsteadily; restlessly
high; situated far above ground or sea-level
far up; aloft
waver; oscillate unsteadily; becom unsteady
waveringly
slimy; jelly-like
slimily
be identified, distinguished or recognised
distinguish; discern; see the difference
between; identify; recognise; know
mark; sign; indication; badge; symbol; seal
mark; make a mark on (thing)
calm; quiet; waveless
wavelessly; calmly
curdy; in curds
curds, coagulated substance
in curds
calm, quiet; waveless
beat; flog; hit; kick; lam; lash; strike; thrash
bluster; storm boisterously (of person etc.)
palpitate; pulsate; throb with more than usual
force or rapidity (of heart, bosom, temples)
strike; beat; drive; hammer (as with hammer)
lead metal
dull and lazy person (slang)
feign; stimulate; pretend
pretence; simulation
pretend deafness
simulate indignation
feign madness
203
cf. léelée
cf. lée
e.g. as raw oyster
cf. lẹpụlepú ̣
cf. léụ ̣
from English lead
obí légẹ
̣
lẹgé ̣
légí
̣ ị̣
légí
̣
̣ ịmọ
lẹgịlẹgị
lẹgímọ
̣
v.p.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
feign sickness
dagger; knife
low; not high (esp. of seat)
in a low position
diminish; lessen (of heat, fire or pain)
feign; invent (excuse, story); simulate;
pretend
lẹgímó
̣ ̣ye
lẹgịmó ̣
lẹkẹlẹké1̣
lẹkẹlẹké1̣
lẹkẹlẹkémọ
̣
2
lẹkẹlẹké ̣
lẹkẹlẹkémọ
̣
lékẹté
ẹ
̣
lékẹté
emọ
̣
̣
lẹkụlẹlẹkụlé ̣
lẹkụlẹlẹkụlémọ
̣
lẹlé ̣
lélú
̣ ̣ụ
n.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
lélú
̣ ̣ụmọ
lẹpúlẹpú ̣
lẹpúlẹpú ̣mọ
léụ̣
léụmọ
̣
ligbó
ligbó ḅara
líkolíko
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.phr
.
v.i.
pretence; simulation
deceive; delude; beguile; bamboozle; hoax
thirsty; feeling thirst
feel thirst; be thirsty
thirstily
thin; lean; not plump
thinly
gaunt and tired
in a gaunt, tired way
slimy
slimily
allure; decoy; entice; lure
low; loaded (of boat) not elevated (in
geographical position etc)
with slow motion (as heavily laden boat)
slimy; not hard (of coconut)
slimily
calm; quiet; waveless
calmly; wavelessly
kind of tree that yields wild rubber
(as bitter as) ligbó
líkóo
likóo
likóomọ
líkoto
líkotóomọ
lịa
líáa
̣
líáa
̣
líáamọ
lịgịlịgí ̣
lịgịlịgímọ
̣
lịká
ló1
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
ló2
n.
loḅiáaloḅiáa
loḅiáaloḅiáamọ
loḅuloḅú
loḅuloḅúmọ
lóḅúu
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
dangle; hover about; be suspended and sway
to and fro
hang
hang; downward droop
with a downward droop
hang down
with a downward droop
broom made from palm frond
slim; of small girth; slender
be slim
slimly; slenderly
strict; tense; not lax
strictly
dust;earth
reclaim; win back from savagery or waste
condition
mark on each yard length of real india or
some other cloth
hover about; become restless in agony
restlessly
luxuriant; exuberant; profuse of growth
exuberantly
lush; luxuriant (esp. of leaves)
204
e.g. ó obi ékị
̣
lẹgímọtẹ
‘he
̣
feigned sickness
and did not come’
cf. lepulepú
cf. léu
lóḅúumọ
lódíi
lódímọ
lodó
lókotóo
lókotóomọ
lókpóo
loló2
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
lolomó ̣
lóo
lóo
v.t.
a.
v.i.
lóomọ
ló
adv.
v.t.
ló ̣boró ̣ọ
ló ̣boró ̣ọmọ
ló ̣gọló ̣ọ
ló ̣gọló ̣ọmọ
lọgụlọgú ̣
lọgụlọgú ̣mọ
ló ̣ị
ló ̣ịmọ
lọkó ̣
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
lọkó ̣
v.i.
lọkọ-irú
lọkó ̣lọkọ
lọkọmó1̣
n.
a.
adv.
lọkọmó2̣
v.t.
lọkọtuḅó
odúlọkọ
odúlọkọ
tuḅolọkó ̣
ló ̣kọtó ̣ọ
ló ̣kọtó ̣ọmọ
ló ̣kpọ
n.
a.
n.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
ló ̣kpọọmọ
pisí ló ̣kpó ̣ọ
lọlí ̣
adv.
v.p.
v.t.
fo
luxuriantly
empty; fatless; unproductive
emptily
gall; typical bitter substance
ungracefully lean and tall
in an ungracefully lean and tall way
mature; heavy; dense
develop; grow; increase (fast), (of plants,
ulcers, etc.)
quicken; stimulate; accelerate growth
steadfast; intent; fixed (of look)
look fixedly with eyes wide open (at, upon);
stare
steadfastly; intently; fixedly
coat with clay or plaster; daub; smear; plaster;
bedaub
flabby; flaccid; limp (especially of buttocks)
limply
lanky; hanging loose (of strands)
in a lanky way; in a loose-hanging way
pendulous; suspended
pendulously
calm (of sea); lush (of grass, etc.)
calmly
easy; not difficult; not stiff; soft; wanting in
hardness; lithe; flexible; supple; tender; not
rough; not coarse; not tough; not hard; feeble;
weak; infirm; wanting in force; balmy; mild;
not astringent; non-alcoholic; mellow; easily
wounded; delicate; loose; not compact or
dense; slack; sluggish; remiss; inactive;
relaxed; weary; lacking vigour
languish; grow feeble; lose vitality; shrivel (of
leaf, etc.)
soft drink
soft; loose; mellow
easily, softly, tenderly; feebly; weakly;
mildly; delicately; wearily; loosely; cheaply,
etc.
ease; make easy; relax; slacken; weaken;
enfeeble; enervate; loosen; cheapen; reduce
speed of
cheap price; low price
weary; tired
tiredness; dullness, etc.
cheap; inexpensive; of low cost
languid; nerveless; weak
languidly
droop; hang down, as in weariness; be
dripping; be very wet
droopingly
be dripping wet
massage; rub; press joints and muscles of
body with hand to stimulate their action; iron
(linen) with flat iron
205
lọlí ̣
ló ̣lịkí ̣
ló ̣lịkí ̣
ló ̣píịmọ
̣
lọpó ̣
n.
n.
a.
lọsí ̣
luáa
luáamọ
luáaluáa
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
luáaluáamọ
adv.
luamúu
luamúumọ
lụgú ̣
lụgú ̣ḅịa
lụgú ̣pembu
lụgú ̣n.-tịn
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
lúkáin
lúkáinmọ
luké
lúkpáa
a.
adv.
n.
adj
lúkpáamọ
lúlu
lúorúu
lúorúumọ
lúu
lúumọ
luu
lụáalụáa
lụáalụáamọ
lú ̣atáa
lú ̣atáamọ
luéẹ̣
luéẹmọ
̣
luéẹlué
ẹmọ
̣
̣
lụgá
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adj
adv.
a.
adv.
vi.i
adv.
adv.
n.
lú ̣gbáa
lú ̣gbáamọ
lụgbáị
a.
adv.
v.i.
lụgbáịmọ
lụgịlíị
adv.
a.
pendulous; hanging down
pendulously
heavy fleece on chest (esp. of odugbaná)
long and drooping (esp. of leaf or breast);
pendulous
droopingly
buffoon; idiot; imbecile; nitwit
sheepish; bashful
sheepishly; bashfully
foolish (of person’s act)
foolishly
dartle; keep on dartling
similar to luáaluáa, but of smaller objects
as luáaluáamọ, but of smaller objects
having lashlike appendage
with lashlike appendage
move away quietly
quietly; calmly
peacefully; quietly
space between first wall-plate and outer wallplate in native houses
dauby; smeared
in a smeared manner
flop; make dull sound of soft body falling
from higher up
with such soft fall
nerveless; feeble
lụgịlíimọ
̣
lụgú ̣
lụgú ̣
alalụgú ̣
lụgú ̣bein
lụgú ̣ gbein
adv.
nervelessly
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.p.
fr
b
cr
fr
t
massage; press or pressing; rub or rubbing
rowlock; tholepin
limply
frill; lappet; small addition of meat to normal
share
one yard (of cloth)
sheepish
sheepishly
plough way through (e.g. tall grass); swing
majestically (e.g. of nama luké)
with a movement of ploughing one’s way
through, or of swinging majestically
(of hair, leaf, etc.) long and luxuriant
luxuriantly
oil-palm fruit
weaver-bird
oil palm frond
oil palm, ‘palm tree’
oil palm fruit
oil palm (tree)
“king” oil palm
oil palm bunch
pluck out palm head
206
Elaeis guineensis
Jacq. (Palmae)
lụgụ-ímgbọ
̣
ẹngẹlụgụ
itukulụgụ
óḅilólolụgụ
lụgụ1
lụgụ2
lụgụama
lụgụ gbá
lụgúḅ ̣ia
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
a.
v.p.
n.m.
lú ̣kéin
̣
lú ̣kéinmọ
̣
lú ̣kẹtée
lú ̣kẹtéemọ
lú ̣kọ
lụkọ
lụkọ
lú ̣kpáa
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
a.
lú ̣kpáa
lú ̣kpáamọ
lú ̣la
v.i.
adv.
n.
lú ̣la dẹ
lú ̣lakíị
v.p.
a.
lú ̣lakíimọ
̣
lúụmaíṇ
lụó ̣ọ
adv.
n.
v.i.
lụó ̣ọ
lụó ̣ọmọ
lú ̣ụlú ̣ụ
lú ̣ụlú ̣ụmọ
n.
adv.
adj
adv.
M.
má1
má1
num.
n.
ma ánga farímọ
̣
má ḅẹlẹụ tụá
a.p.
a.p.
má ḅịḅị tụá
mádụtịḅị(-obi)
a.p.
n.m.
s
ma-ótumo
n.m.
i
ma ọndé ̣
má tịḅị tụa
má tọrụ tụa
mési
má2
num.
a.p.
a.p.
num.
fem.
dem.
b
oil palm fruit
mantled palm fruit
tenara palm fruit
yellow palm fruit
eat (palm fruit) e.g. lụgú ̣ lụgụ
myth; tale; purely fictitious narrative
mythological; fictitious
tell a tale
weaver-bird sp.
Ploceus sp. (cf.
álụgụbị́ ya;
̣
íguegele)
languid; lacking vigour
languidly
languid; inert
languidly
feel biting sensation in an ulcer; smart
chew (a stick or bone)
chewing-stick; chewstick
hanging limply or loosely (of something
smaller)
hang limply; slouch
limply
short stick placed across road for hauling log,
etc.
spread such sticks
limp; wanting in energy; lacking vigour;
languid
limply; languidly
anchor
slouch; droop; go or stand or sit with loose
ungainly attitude
slouch
in a drooping manner
eager; intent (of looks)
eagerly; intently
wp
double; twin; two; twofold
couple; brace; pair; twin; two (used as
adjective in N embe)
double-edged or two-edged (of sword, knife)
two- or double-tongued; fork-tongued (of
reptiles)
double-barrelled (of gun)
amphisbaenid snake; fabled snake with head
at each end
insect sp. found in books and boxes; silverfish
eight hundred
two-headed
two or double-faced
forty
this
207
= dú ̣tịḅịdú ̣tịḅị
má3
-ma1
-ma2
máa
máịn
máịnkaramọ
máịn mịẹ
máịnmịẹ
maíṇ
maịnmó ̣
máịnbe
a.
pl.de
m.a.
fem.
def.a
rt.
pl.de
f.art.
n.
num.
& n.
a.
adv.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
conj.
mama
mamba
mamba2
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
dem.
&
dem.
pron.
n.
n.
n.
mamíwọta1
n.
mamíwọta2
manda
n.f.
a.
malú ̣ụ
malú ̣ụmọ
malú ̣ụmalú ̣ụ
malú ̣ụmalú ̣ụmọ
máma
mandamó ̣
mánga
manga
manga-anga
mangaḅọ
mangaḅó ̣ẹrịgha
mangamó ̣
mangaláa
mangaláamọ
mángiríi
mángiríimọ
mangí ̣
n.
adv.
n.m.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
these (things)
the (feminine)
tó ̣gụ ‘child’,
tó ̣gụma ‘the girl’
suffix used to form definite plural of nonpersonal nouns; e.g.
child’s name for mother; mum; mama
two
indí ‘fish’, indíma
‘fishes’
second
secondly
have hallucination(s); see double
hallucination
disappear; vanish; cease to be visible
cause to vanish or disappear
if; on condition that; e.g.
move swiftly; flash
with a flash
move very swiftly
with a very swift movement
these (things)
tr
i
wt
child’s name for mother
flat but thick log or stone for cracking kernels
oblong lead rods formerly packed and sold in
kegs, used in manufacturing of shot balls
called "sara"
faints; impure spirit coming over at end of
distillation
mermaid; a water-spirit
ductile; malleable; plastic; pliable; pliant;
lithe; supple; flexible
malleability; plasticity; pliability; ductility
plastically; pliantly
biting insect
blind
be blind; go blind
blindness
blind side; (fig.) wrong side
blind person
fine rain; drizzle
make blind
fleeting
disappear; be lost; fleet away
fleetingly
plump; fat; full; rounded
plumply
run; abscond; bolt; flee; elope; desert
208
ó ḅo maịnbe ‘if he
comes’
mangí ḅ
̣ ọgọ
n.
v.p.
mangímọ
̣
mangịmó ̣
mangípigíaye
̣
mángolóo
mángolóomọ
mánị
v.t.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
adv.
manrambaị
n.
ḅọgọtẹ manrambaị
ḅoyo manrambaị
deḅí manrambaị
mányamánya
mányamányamọ
mapóo
mapóomọ
mapúu
n.p.
n.p.
n.p.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
mapúumọ
mapúumapúu
mapúumapúumọ
masínị
̣
masínịḅọ
̣
máụn1
n.
máụnmọ
adv.
running; speed in running; escape
A. run away
B. run very well; run to much
run to or towards
hide away from; allow to escape
race
concave; sunken; hollow
concavely; hollowly
A. yet; so far; in the immediate future; so
soon as now
B. before previous to time in question; in the
past. Note: Both the foregoing uses occur in
a negative context; e.g.
day before yesterday, or the day after
tomorrow
day before yesterday
day after tomorrow
non-existent date; day that will never come
faint; indistinct
faintly; indistinctly
limply
throb; palpitate; pulsate
throb; palpitation; pulsation
throbbingly
throb continuously
with continuous throbbing
sewing-machine
merchant prince
be shocked at (something heard); e.g.
shock; impact; sudden and disturbing mental
impression
shockingly
209
á mánị fịghá ‘I
have not yet eaten’,
or ‘I won’t eat
now’. To
differentiate them,
the former has the
word wó ̣kụna
meaning ‘now’,
added after mánị;
and the latter has
the words dịn ifié
meaning ‘another
time’ added after
mánị. See
following
examples: á mánị
wó ̣kụna fịghá ‘I
won’t eat now (or
yet)’ á mánị dịn
ifié fịghá ‘I haven’t
eaten yet (or
already)’ or ‘I’ve
never eaten (that)’
odú ghọ máụn, lit.
"shocked on body",
i.e. deeply shocked
máụn2
ḿbịsẹ = mí-bịsẹ
̣
ḿḅụ = mí-ḅụ
̣
meín
-mein
mékulée
mékuléemọ
melúu
v.i.
n.
conj.
adv.
pers.
pl.de
m.a.
pers.
pl.de
f.art.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
melúumọ
menú
menúye
adv.
v.t.
n.
méranméran
a.
méranméran
méranméranmọ
merému
merémumọ
merému-oki
meremú1
meremumó ̣
meremú2
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
meremú2
n.
meremuḅió
mérenée
mérenéemọ
mérengíi
mérengíimọ
m’ési
m’ésikaramọ
méun
méunmọ
mé ̣
mẹmó ̣
méẹ̣
méẹmọ
̣
mẹẹ
méẹn
̣
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
num.
a. &
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
adv.
a.
méẹn
̣
méẹnmọ
̣
mẹnmó ̣
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
mew; miaow
cry of cat; mew; miaow
‘since’
‘as soon as’
these (people)
the (people)
toothless
in a toothless manner
dart; start rapidly in some direction under
water
dart or sudden rapid motion of fish under
water
with a dart
pin screen with menúye
short, sharpened stick used for fastening
screen on to upright when damming creek
light in complexion; starting to be ripe or
mellow
become ripe or mellow
ripely; mellowly
supine; lying face upward
lie face upward
supinely
back-stroke
turn face upward
turn palm upward; turn anything inside out
admit; accept as valid or true; acknowledge;
agree; answer; avow; confess; believe; own
admission; acceptance; acknowledgement;
agreement; answer; reply; avowal
faith; belief
sleepy; drowsy
sleepily; drowsily
habitually indolent; slothful; lazy
slothfully; indolently
two score; forty; 40
fortieth; in the fortieth place (e.g. of ọga or
soldiers)
move slowly in close-packed formation
moving slowly in close formation
dissolve; become liquid
dissolve; make liquid
slow; stealthy; secret
slowly; stealthily
until
lukewarm; moderately warm; tepid; slightly
warm
become tepid
lukewarmly; tepidly
make tepid
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méngẹlẹ
̣
méngẹlé
ẹ̣
̣
méngẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
mẹngụrú ̣
mẹngụrú ̣
mẹngụrú ̣mọ
mẹnịmẹní ̣
mẹnịmẹní ̣
mẹnịmẹnị-íru
mẹnịmẹnímọ
̣
mẹnịmẹnịmó ̣
mẹnmẹn
mẹnménmọ
̣
mérẹngú
̣
̣ụ
mẹrẹngú ̣ụmọ
mẹrú ̣nmẹrú ̣ụn
mẹrú ̣nmẹrú ̣ụn
mẹrú ̣ụ
mẹrú ̣ụmọ
mésẹlé
̣ ẹ̣
mésẹlé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
métẹré
̣ ẹ̣
méụn
̣ 1
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
& i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.m.
méụn
̣ 2
méụnmọ
̣
mẹụn
mẹụnḅará
míkimíki
a.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
milipúu
mílolíi
mílolíimọ
miná1
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.m.
méẹnmé
ẹn
̣
̣
méẹnmé
ẹnmọ
̣
̣
mẹkẹsú ̣ụ
mẹlẹsú ̣ụmọ
mélị́ ị̣
mélị́ ịmọ
̣
mélụmé
lụ
̣
̣ 1
mélụmé
lụ
̣
̣ 1
mélụmé
lụ
̣
̣ 1
1
mélụmé
lụmọ
̣
̣
2
mélụmé
lụ
̣
̣
2
mélụmé
lụmọ
̣
̣
mẹlú ̣ụ
mẹlú ̣ụ
mẹlú ̣ụmọ
méṇ
ménmọ
̣
ménẹ
̣
move gently and slowly
moving gently and slowly
disappear; be lost; fleet; slip away
fleetingly
thorough; complete
thoroughly; completely
medlesome
meddle; busy oneself unduly with
meddlesomeness
meddlesomely
flicker; wave to and fro (as serpents’ tongue)
flickeringly
flash; move swiftly across
flash; swift movement across
with a flash
gentle; quiet
gently; softly
say; said
i
tr
develop; increase; become bigger
grown-up; huge; large; big; heavy; unwieldy
unwieldily; heavily
move briskly
sudden or quick movement
with a brisk movement
luscious; richly sweet in taste; sugary; sweet
sweetness
soft drink (lit. "sweet drink")
lusciously
sugar; sweeten
become tepid
make tepid
dull; slow-moving; sluggish
dully; sluggishly
sensation as of ants crawling over the skin
feel such crawling sensation; tingle
flicker; flirt; move briskly
flickeringly
flat; horizontal; level; plane
flatly; levelly; horizontally
very small; tiny; paltry
small red ant, very slow moving, found on
food and sweets
smooth; well-trimmed; not pitted
smoothly
honey
mellifluous; sweet as honey (of even voice)
commune; hold intimate intercourse together;
communicate
wriggle as larva; heave
smooth; free from projections
smoothly
box-like seat for traditional priests, etc.; box
for storing certain traditional property
211
miná2
v.t.
sound a trumpet;
miná3
v.i.
ache; fester; rankle; e.g.
mindí
n.
mindí-agbọpẹlẹbọ́ ̣
mindí-agbọpẹlẹḅọ
mindí-apụn
mindíḅileḅọ
mindíḅio
mindi-ébi
mindi-élẹgẹlẹ
̣
mindí fa
mindi-íderi
mindí ịkagị
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
water; kind of liquid; tide; periodical rise and
fall of sea; sap; vital juice circulating in plants
sea horse
sea horse
unidentified fish sp. resembling roundworm
diver
under water
good tide for fishing, usually neap tide
large catfish sp. found in streams
ebb; recede
fall of flood
turtle spp.
mindí koro
mindíkoroḅịtẹ
mindíkọn
mindímindi
mindímọndịagbaka
mindi-óḅolịa
v.p.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
n.
s
n.m.
f
snake eel sp. (‘striped snake eel’, ‘serpent
eel’); moray eel (‘moray or painted eel’)
mindi-ófoni
n.m.
f
flying fish; butterfly ray
mindi-ógboro
n.m.
f
fish sp.; barracuda
mindi-okoko
n.
r
hawksbill turtle
mindí ságị
mindí sára
v.p.
v.p.
mindísei
mindítugu
abadímindi
̣
alámindi
bouboumindí
ḍaḅamindí
ḍọụḍọụmindí
ebimindí
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
furumindí
n.
ikpekumindí
indomindí
n.
n.
f
f
f
mt
f
mt
r
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
e.g. odú mina
‘show signs of
possession by deity’
andí dụ
̣ mina ‘have
a headache’; ịnọ
mina ‘a wound
rankles’
Hippocampus spp.
Hippocampus spp.
order Siluriformes
West African black
forest turtle,
Pelusios nigre, and
West African mud
turtle, P. castaneus
bathe in water
towel; bathing-cloth
black snake
watery; juicy; sappy; succulent
rainboot
have or take a bath
become seasoned (of wood); slightly smoked
(of fish
bad tide for fishing, usually spring tide
source of a river
sea-tide
salt water
fresh or sweet water
lake or pond water
cold water
clean water; good tide for fishing, usually
neap tide
time of last and first quarters of moon when
nights are very dark
ice; water with frozen surface
milk
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family
Ophichthidae;
family Muraenidae.
cf. ongorí1
family Exocoetidae;
Gymnura spp.
Sphyraena spp. cf.
ḍọrọ, ogborokílo
Eretmochelys
imbricata
ịyó ̣mindi
kalamindí
koromindí
kụrọmindí
opumindí
osuómindi
ọfịrímindi
̣
ọmó ̣mindi
pígirimindi
semindí
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
serimindi
sụọmindí
tọrụmindí
tuḅomindí
tụḅụrụmindí
míngilimíngili
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
míngoliḅa-angala
n.
t
minikíi
v.i.
mínimíni
n.
v.i.
mínimínimọ
mínimíniḅasan
míomío
míomíomọ
míoríi
mipúu
mipúumọ
mipúumipúu
mipúumipúumọ
miyé
adv.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
mizilí1
mizilímọ
mizilí2
mizilimó ̣
mí ̣
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
neut.
dem.
a.
mí ḅ
̣ ara
adv.p
.
adv.p
.
adv.
mína
̣ karagha
mínẹ
̣
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
mt
b
favourable tide
neap tide; small tide
bath
current (of water)
spring-tide; spate
rainwater
hot water
ebb tide
whirlpool
bad water; bad tide for fishing; water from
ulcer; wound or dead tissue
flow or full tide
spring tide
sea or river water
well-water
unfavourable tide
vermicular; like a worm in movement
slither; slide unsteadily; go with irregular
slipping motion
red mangrove
heave; rise with alternate gentle falls (as
waves)
heaving; swelling (of waves)
glide; move, change, colour, by smooth
continuous slow movement (of liquid, ship,
carriage, snake, chameleon changing colour)
glidingly
fish-eating bird (unidentified)
oily; covered with oil
oilily
long-faced
throb; palpitate; pulsate; heave
throb; palpitation; heave
throbbingly; with a heave
throb or heave in succession
throbbing continuously
mangrove
mildew; be tainted with
mildew; taint
disappear; vanish
cause to vanish
this; the thing (common and neuter nouns)
close at hand or touched or pointed to or
drawn attention to or observed by speaker at
the time, or already named or understood or in
question; seldom interchangeable with aní;̣
current
this way; this wise; thus; so; accordingly;
ditto; likewise
rather than this
inasmuch as; since; because
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Rhizophora
harisonii
Laguncularia
racemosa
-mị
neut.
def.a
rt.
-mị
mịé ̣
v.t.
mịéḅọ
̣
mịé ̣ ḍẹrí ̣
n.m.f
.
v.p.
mịéḍẹrí
ye
̣
̣
n.
mịé ̣ ḍụḅamó ̣
mịẹ ébimó ̣
v.p.
v.p.
mịẹ-égbẹye
̣
mịé ̣ koríamọ
̣
mịémọ
̣
mịénafía
̣
n.
v.p.
v.t.
a.
mịé ̣ pagamọ
v.p.
mịé ̣ seimó ̣
mịéseimó
̣
̣
mịéseíya
̣
v.p.
a.
adv.
mịé ̣ toí
mịétoíye
̣
mịéye
̣
míịmí
̣ ị̣
v.p.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n
adv.
a.
adv.
neut.
dem.
pron.
v.i.
n.
a.
mịlịpú ̣ụ
mịlịpú ̣ụmọ
mílọlí
̣ ị̣
mílọlí
̣ ịmọ
̣
mímị
̣
míngịrị
̣
míngịrịmí
ngịrị
̣
̣
v.i.
n.
míngịrịmí
ngịrịmọ
̣
̣
mínị
̣
adv.
v.i.
A. the (of most things or of common nouns);
e.g.
warímị
̣ ‘the house’;
tó ̣gụmị ‘the child’
B. the fact that; e.g.
ó ḅomị wa ḅio
ḅẹlẹmó ̣ ‘the fact
that he came made
us happy’
do; make; accomplish; fulfil; perform; effect;
bring about; cause to be; produce;
manufacture; influence; induce; construct;
frame; prepare; establish; enact; constitute;
amount to; gain; acquire (money); dress sore
doer; maker; performer
mock; hold up to ridicule; ridicule by
imitation; deride; sneer; scoff at
mockery; derision; scoff; object of ridicule;
laughing stock; travesty
magnify; enlarge
A. amend; make better; correct an error (in
document)
B. (in a bad sense) punish properly
duty worth doing
correct; amend; set right
do unto; bestow upon
worthy of being done; suitable or proper to be
done
invent; devise; reveal indirectly; give the
show away
err; sin; make mistake
guilty
perhaps; possibly; it may be; (lit. "doing
badly")
take in vain; mimic
travesty
something to do; handiwork; doing; deed
smile; grin
smile; grin
make peristaltic movement
peristalsis of the anus
(move) peristaltically
slender and smooth
slenderly and smoothly
this (singular and impersonal)
turn quickly or smartly (of eyes)
quick turn(ing) (of eyes)
delirious; hallucinatory; insane; mad;
senseless; lunatic
be lunatic; insane
delirium; hallucination; insanity; madness;
lunacy
deliriously; madly
be absorbed; swallowed
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míọlí
̣ ị̣
míọlí
̣ ịmọ
̣
mịọmịó ̣
mịọmịó ̣mọ
míọrí
̣ ị̣
míọrí
̣ ịmọ
̣
mịọríị̣
mịọríịmọ
̣
mítịmí
̣ tị̣
mítịmí
̣ tịmọ
̣
móndoróo
a.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
móndoróomọ
adv.
móronmóron
móronmóronmọ
móronóo
a.
adv.
a.
móronóomọ
adv.
-mọ1
suf.
absorbent; absorptive
absorbently
absorb; suck in; swallow up; gorge; gulp
here; hither; in this place
here; this place or point
slender; thin (and long)
slenderly; slimly
thin, slim and sharp
slimly but sharply
small and emaciated (of person)
in a small, emaciated way
withdraw swiftly (e.g. of tongue of snake)
withdrawing swiftly
dirty; filthy
dirtily; filthily
long and smallish (of nose); sheepish (of
looks)
in a long and smallish way (of nose);
sheepishly (of looks)
slightly smoked and still partially fresh
in a slightly smoked way
tall and gaunt (of person); drowsy, sleepy (of
face)
in a tall gaunt way (of person); drowsily,
sleepily (of face)
suffix used to form causative verbs; e.g.
-mọ2
suf.
suffix used to form directional verbs; e.g.
-mọ3
suf.
suffix used to form adverbs; e.g.
mó ̣kụ
mọkú ̣fa
adv.
adv.
mọkú ̣nẹ
mọmbí ̣
mọmbó ̣
adv.
v.t.
n.
mọmbọló ̣
mọndị
n.
v.i.
in order that; so that
not; (it is used always with the future suffix nyụ)
in order that; to
absorb; suck; drink like sponge
midrib of leaf of raffia palms, both hookeri
and vinifera
floats on a drift net
A. walk; make a journey; travel or go on foot;
perambulate; stroll; move; make progress; go
from place to place; saunter; (in net weaving)
move (of a mesh) due to bad tightening
walk; walking gait; journey; distance travelled
in specified time; walk; excursion or foot;
stroll; saunter; move or movement; expedition
walk out
stroll; walk about
running mesh (of net)
safe journey
B. live as companions, friends, acquaintances,
mínịmí
nị
̣
̣
mínịmí
nịmọ
̣
̣
mịní ̣
míọ̣
n.
mọndị paga
mọndị toí
mọndịtọlụ
ḍigi mọndíị̣
v.p.
v.p.
n.
excl.
v.i.
tp
fg
215
findimó ̣ ‘widen’;
ebimó ̣ ‘beautify’;
koromó ̣ ‘fell’
ḍorímọ ‘weave
together’; korómọ
‘fall towards’
fíndimọ ‘widely’;
ebimó ̣ ‘well,
beautifully’
lovers
companionship; friendship; acquaintanceship;
love
female companion, friend, acquaintance or
lover; concubine
companion; friend; acquaintance; mate;
stranger that one comes across (pl. mọndịongú)
make friends, love
male companion, friend, acquaintance; lover
C. live with specified principle or in specified
manner; e.g.
n.
mọndị-ara
n.f.
mọndíbọ
̣
n.m.f
.
mọndị mịé ̣
mọndị-oweí
v.p.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
specified manner in which a person lives;
principle by which person lives
D. speed; go fast
velocity; speed; quickness of motion
E. (of machine, person, plan, etc.); work;
operate; act; do appointed work; put or keep
in operation; be engaged in work; e.g.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
mọndị ḅó
mọndịfịrí ̣
mọndị kó ̣n
mọndị pagamó ̣
mó ̣ngị
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.m.
f
mó ̣ngịnị
n.m.
f
mọngọlọmọngọlọ
mọngọlọmọngọlọm
ọ
mó ̣ngọló ̣ọ
mó ̣ngọló ̣ọmọ
mó ̣nị
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
mọnọ
n.
conj.
mọrọn
n.m.
mu
v.i.
n.
f
fịrí mọndị
‘carry
̣
on operation’;
‘make effort’; só ̣mụ
mọndị ‘solve (sum)
by calculation’
operation; working; action
work up; bring gradually to efficient state
achievement; thing made
engage in a trade
work out
dolphinfish; West African ladyfish [ten- Coryphaena
sp.;
pounder?]
Elops lacerta
mullet sp. (‘the soft-scaled mullet’)
family Mugilidae.
cf. abaraká,
akú ̣rọ,
gbulu, ịdẹgé,̣
tunwan [ó ̣zọló ̣lị2?]
willowy; slim; slender
slimly
slim; lithe and slender; willowy
slimly
covet; desire eagerly (what belongs to
another)
covetous; eagerly desirous (of another’s
property
covetousness
or (in an interrogatory sentence); e.g.
a.
meremuḅio ghó
mọndị ‘walk by
faith’
fish sp.; horse mackerel
depart; go; set out; start; leave; proceed;
travel; journey
departure; going out or back; exit
216
ị ḅonyú ̣ mọnọ érị
̣
ḅo? ‘will you come
or should I come?’
(see under anígha)
̣
[Caranx spp.?]
family Carangidae
cf. ịkụtú ̣kụtụ, pélia
mulée
n.
mulé ḍosi
mumbé
mumbé tụa
mumbeí
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
múmbulúu
múmbulúumọ
mumere
a.
adv.
n.
mumere-ịḅọlọ
ayeḅamumere
múngele
n.m.
n.
a.
v.i.
mungelemó ̣
n.
v.t.
múngu1
n.
múngu tụa
múngu2
mungu
v.p.
v.i.
a.
n.
n.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
mungukiri
mungumó ̣
munguyọ
mungurúmunguru
mungurúmunguru
mọ
munú
munumó ̣
munúwei
f
i
bm
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
v.i.
munúya
n.
múu
mụmọ
mụmọgbọlụ
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.m.
la
b
mụmọsụgịrị
n.
wt
mụkú ̣ụ
mụkú ̣ụmụkú ̣ụ
mụkú ̣ụmụkú ̣ụmọ
mú ̣mbụrụ
raised point from which a dive or plunge is
taken
take a dive or plunge
mark made by local method of bloodletting
make mark for letting blood
plump; plumpy
plumply
dye; matter used for dyeing; shrub plant and
fruit used for dyeing
insect; cotton stainer
mole; spot or blemish on human skin
round; circular; spherical
revolve; turn round and round; rotate; go in
circular orbit
circumference; distance round
revolve; cause to turn round; rotate; make a
circle
swirl; commotion made by fish, etc., rushing
through water
swirl; cause such commotion
be depressed
hollow; having a depression
hollowness
hollow place; valley
hollowly
hollow place; valley; depression
plump; plumpy
plumply
A. sleep; fall or be asleep
sleep; rest
cause to sleep
bed; thing to sleep on
B. cohabit; have sexual intercourse with;
copulate; unite sexually
cohabitation; coition; sexual copulation or
union
low; moo
low(ing); moo(ing)
stir; move
stir; movement
stir gently; heave gently
with a gentle heave
stir gently (especially while sleeping)
gentle stir or movement
sand-bank; shoal
bird sp.; curlew species (common on sandbanks)
late rains immediately following the fall of
217
Parachanna
obscura. c=
ágbagú ̣rụ, okoḅia
Dysdercus spp.
Numenius sp. (cf.
abadị-ókolaịn;
abadí-okolaịn;
̣
okolaín)
̣
mụná
n.
mụna-ára
mụnáḅọ
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.pl.p k
ers.
n.
k
mụna-érema
mụna-ówei
k
v.i.
n.
mụnụmụnú ̣
a.
mụnụmụnú ̣mọ
mụrẹnmụréṇ
mụrẹnmụrénmọ
̣
mú ̣samú ̣sa
mú ̣samú ̣samọ
mú ̣séẹ̣
mú ̣séẹ̣
mú ̣séẹmọ
̣
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
h
(pl. mụna-óngu)
sisters; female cousins
brother; male cousin
fraternize; associate as brother or sister or
relation
here; over here;
move briskly
with a brisk movement
move about constantly
with constant movement
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
mú ̣ndụ
mụngụrụ
mụngụrụmọ
mụngụrụmụngụrụ
mụngụrụmụngụrụ
mọ
mú ̣nrụn
flood
affinity; brotherhood; relations; kindred;
relationship; fraternity; brotherliness
sister
relation; relative; beloved one
fire-resisting plant and its black fruit
(pl. mụnaóweiongu)
cf. mí dụ
̣
also recorded as
múrụn. Vitex
grandifolia Gürke
(of eyes) charming; captivating; bewitching;
enticing
charmingly
(of fire) slow; not intense
slowly
(of painting) thin; not dauby or thick
thinly
grin; smile; smirk; show teeth in stupid smile
grin; smile; smirk
simperingly
N.
ná
v.t.
ná
náya
na
n.
v.i.
part.
hear; perceive with the ear; grant prayer;
receive letter or message from
act of hearing; perception with the ear
hear one another; confer together; conspire
A. with
B. and
na
na...na
part.
before: it is repeated alternately with the
principal verb; e.g.
náan
náan
nafíạ
v.i.
n.
a.
awake; cease to sleep; rouse from sleep
state of being awake
worth; deserving, worthy of; e.g.
218
e.g. ó na ḅóo ‘come
with him’
e.g. orí na érị
̣ na
‘he and I’
ó ḅo na ḅo ná, wa
ká ḅonyú ̣ ‘before
he comes we too
shall come’
mịé ̣ nafía;
̣ ‘worth
doing’ ẹrị náfía;
̣
‘worth seeing’ ná
nafía;
̣ ‘worth
hearing’
appropriate; of sufficient worth or merit; e.g.
nafíạ
náịn
a.
náịnmọ
naịn
naịnmó ̣
nákaragha
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
adv.
nákịríị̣
nama
namaḅafụ
namaḅakiri
namaḅawarí ̣
namaḅụọ
namakọrị-obiri
nama-odu
nama-otóngoi
nama ọsọịn
namasóbiri
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.p.
n.
namatịnẹyaí ̣
nándụrụ
n.pl.
v.i.
nandụrú ̣mọ
nándụrú ̣ụ
nánga
nangá
v.t.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
nangáya
nangụló ̣ or nángụọ
náya
v.t.
a.
v.i.
née
v.i.
née
néemọ
néenée
néenée
néenéemọ
nékenéke
nékenéke
nékenéke
nékenékemọ
nembé
nembé kọn
Nembe
Nembeḅịḅị
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
aloft; high up; upward; excitant; moved to
strong feeling
excitedly; straight up
get up (of penis)
cause to be erect
rather than; e.g.
al
da
i
bp
fg
f
et
et
= níkịrí
̣ ị̣
animal; (neut.) meat or flesh
pickle
shambles; scene of carnage
abattoir; slaughter-house
footprints of beast; tracks; pug
hound, hunting dog
hide; leather; skin
solitary wasp which frequents meat or fish
hunt (for game)
insult
nerves; sinews; tendons
shrivel; contract or wither into wrinkled,
folded, rolled-up, contorted, or dried-up state
shrivel
shrivelled; contorted
be trampled
trample; tread underfoot; walk upon; press or
crush with the feet (as lụgú ̣ nanga)
trample one another
long; tall
hear one another; confer; take counsel;
conspire; combine; concur, privily, for
unlawful purpose
reel (of eyes, head); be in a whirl; be dizzy;
sway; stagger; swoon; have fainting fit
reel; swoon; stagger
reelingly; staggeringly
reel; swoon; sway
sway(ing); reel(ing); swoon
swooningly; swayingly
crazy; insane; mad; maniacal
be mad; act madly
craze; mania; madness; delirium; insanity
crazily; maniacally; madly
fishing method
fish on or dam flat bank of river
N embe people
N embe language
219
bomó nafíạ
‘praiseworthy’; ḅé ̣
nafíạ
‘blameworthy’
aní nakaragha
̣
‘rather than that’;
mí nakarágha
̣
‘rather than this’
literally "bad as
dog" or "bush
animal"
or tụa
Nembenaịn
Nemben’ebiwei
néréun
néréunmọ
mịé ̣ néréunmọ
néun
néunmọ
nẹ1
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
conj.
nẹ2
nẹgú
part.
n.
nẹmú ̣
nẹmú ̣
nẹmú ̣
nẹmú ̣mọ
nẹmụmó ̣
nẹmú ̣ lẹgẹ
nẹmú ̣lẹgẹ
nẹmụsánga
nẹngẹ
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
adv.
nẹngẹnẹngẹ
nẹngí ̣
adv.
v.t.
Nembeḅọ
et
person of the N embe clan
et
i
range of the N embe language; vocabulary
guinea-worm
absorbed; hypnotized
absorbedly
hypnotize
absorbed
absorbedly
because; since; inasmuch as; for the reason
that
that, which, who
sea catfish sp. (‘the smallest sea catfish’)
f
insane; mad; lunatic
mad; be mad; act wildly
insanity; madness; lunacy
madly
make made
fancy insanely
insane fancy
insect
so; as appears or results from preceding or
implied statement or fact; e.g.
so
A. beat; surpass; excel; outdo; e.g.
nẹngí ̣
B. be above, at a higher point, on the upper
side; e.g.
nẹngí ̣
C. be more than (introducing second member
of comparison);
nẹngí ̣
nẹngíḅara
̣
nẹngịmó1̣
a.
adv.
v.t.
& i.
nẹngịmó2̣
n.
nẹngịmó ̣ḅọ
n.m.f
.
a.
a.
v.i.
nẹngịmọ
nẹngíya
̣
surpassing; excellent; pre-eminent
surpassingly; excellently; pre-eminently
conquer; defeat; overcome; overthrow; gain
victory; triumph; be successful; prevail (over
enemy); win; subdue; subjugate; vanquish
conquest; defeat; success; overthrow; triumph;
victory; subjugation; win
victor; conqueror; vanquisher
successful; victorious; triumphant
not equal; unequal
be unequal
220
Arius sp. cf.
gbengu, ịsịngí,
nẹngú ̣, ọtíọ,̣ sịngí ̣
nẹngẹ ó mughá so
he did not go’
ḅẹrẹmị í nẹngịté
,̣
̣
lit. "the case has
surpassed me (in
doing)", i.e. ‘the
case has been too
much for me’; ó í ̣
nẹngịghá ‘he does
not beat me’
ó sógio í nẹngịté
̣
̣
‘he has risen above
me’
e.g. ḅurú fị ábangá
nẹngị ‘to eat yam
more than plantain’;
ẹrí nụngalá
ị2@
̣
nẹngí ‘you
are
̣
taller than I’
nẹngíyaghá
̣
nẹngíyamọ
̣
mịé ̣ nẹngíyamọ
̣
nẹngú ̣
a.
adv.
v.p.
n.m.
nghọ
ními
a.
ními
ními
v.i.
n.
nímimọ
adv.
nimi
v.t.
nimighá
nimiwọrị
a.
adv.
nimíya
nimíya
ḍirinimi
yenimi
v.t.
n.
a.
n.
mịé ̣ nimimó ̣
-nimí
v.p.
suf.
nínein
nin’esí
níneinkaramọ
níneinkaramọ
nin’ọndé ̣
níngala
níngaláa
num.
a.
a.
adv.
num.
v.i.
a.
niní1
niní ḅọgọ
niníkondu
nini-ópogolo
ninípanga
niní2
niní kọn
niníkọnḅọ
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
a.
n.
adv.
ninnín
ninnín
ninnínmọ
f
not unequal; equal
unequally
make unequal
sea catfish sp. (‘the real sea catfish’; ‘longsnouted sea catfish; ‘rigid sea catfish’)
contracted for of -mị ghọ
discreet; judicious; prudent; sagacious;
worldly-wise; circumspect; cautious; wary;
taking everything into account; not speaking
out at inopportune times; sensible
be wise; get wise
wisdom; sagacity; prudence; possession of
knowledge
discreetly; judiciously; prudently;
sagaciously; wisely; warily; cautiously;
sensibly
know; identify; recognise; be aware of; be
conscious of; feel; be acquainted with;
experience; learn; sense; heed; be versed in
unknown
knowingly; in a knowing manner;
consciously; intentionally
be on intimate terms with; love
acquaintance
learned; literate
knowledge; learning; familiarity gained by
experience
make known to
be; used to express state or condition; e.g.
bp
bp
bp
bp
eight
one hundred and sixty
eighth
eighthly
three thousand two hundred
swell; distend
swollen; distended (of limbs, caused by
rheumatic pain)
nose; organ or smell
smell
ridge of nose
nostril
wing of nostril
punish (subordinate) unduly
do murder; assassinate
habitual murderer; assassin; assassinator
numb; torpid
numbness; torpidness
numbly; torpidly
221
Arius sp. cf.
gbengu, ịsịngí,
nẹgú ̣,
ọtíọ,̣ sịngí ̣
ebínimí ‘it is
good’; ị ḅonimí
yo? ‘are you here
now?’
mịé ̣ ninnínmọ
ninóngo
ninóngo
níị̣
v.p.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
níị̣
níị̣
níịmọ
̣
nịịní ̣
nịịní ̣
nịịní ̣
nịịnímọ
̣
níkịrí
̣ ị̣
nịkọnịkó ̣ or níkó
̣ ̣ọ
nịná
nịná san
pẹrẹnịná
nịnásịnị
nịnọ
ńka
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
noin
noinḅiri(ogbo)
noindeaḅụ
noin koru
n.
n.
n.pl.p tr
ers.
v.t.
noinkoru
noinmó ̣
n.
v.t.
noinnama
n.m.
&
pl.pe
rs.
n.
a.
a.
noin-ogbo
nóngoróo
nó ̣
bf
bf
fr
adv.
nó ̣
nó ̣
nó ̣
v.i.
v.t.
nó ̣
n.
nó ̣gha
nó ̣ghamo
nó ̣mọ
nó ̣ịn
nó ̣ịnmọ
nó ̣mbadáị
a.
adv.
adv.
a.
a.
n.
nó ̣ndí ̣
v.t.
benumb; torpidify; numb; stupefy
commune; hold intimate intercourse together
discuss; examine by argument
tense; unrelaxed; strained to stiffness (of
bowel nerves)
become tense
tenseness; tensity
tensely
tense; strained to stiffness
become tense
tenseness; tension
tensely
wasp-waisted (of waist)
thin; slender and emaciated
urine
urinate
semen
fruits of the shrub ẹkụẹkụẹḅá (which see)
see nụnọ
also; too; even
(cf. nịịní)̣
(cf. níị)̣
(contraction of
mímị
̣ ka)
night
midnight
roving night spirits
keep lyke-wake or watch over dead body at
night with lamentations and merry-making,
before burial the next day
lyke-wake; wake
benight; overtake (of night)
tr
juju [??]
h
midnight
very tall
pungent; piquant; biting; pricking (to skin,
taste, smell of pepper, snuff, sun, etc.); painful
ache; suffer continuous or prolonged pain
A. give rise to pain; inflict pain upon
B. annoy, irritate, molest, harass, vex,
exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate
ache, pain, suffering, distress, pang, throes,
anguish, agony
painless
painlessly
pungently, piquantly, painfully
faint, very thin
faintly, thinly
herb sp.
suck, absorb
222
enemí ị́ noinmọ,
‘I
̣
was benighted’
(also mịé ̣ nọmó ̣
v.p.)
Bryophyllum
pinnatum. <
English never-die
nó ̣ndí ̣
v.i.
said of any person whose wraith or apparition
is seen after death and can cause harm
such act of roving of a wraith or apparition
bad omen; marvel; miracle; mystery; wonder;
amazement; portent; significant sign; prodigy;
marvellous thing
amaze; overwhelm with wonder; surprise;
portend; foreshow, as omen
fabled creature resembling man and ape that
can be tamed; anthropoid ape; simian; any
man with doubtful origin
eclipse (of sun or moon);
nó ̣ndí ̣
nọndọ
n.
n.
nọndọ ékị
̣ ḅé ̣
v.p.
nọndọ2
n.m.
nọndọ3
n.
nó ̣ngbọró ̣ọ
nó ̣ụn
-ń timí
a.
n.
nu
númo
numó1
n.m.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
n.
numófa
numó famọ
numomó2̣
numó
numo1
a.
v.p.
v.t.
n.
n.
numo2
n.
song; hymn; chorus; music: e.g.
numo pẹlẹ1
numo pẹlẹ2
numo sogio
numo3
worínumo
núngbáa
núngbaláa
nungú
nungu ékị
̣ ḍigi
nunú
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
núu
núumọ
nú ̣a
nú ̣a kule
nú ̣akuleye
nụngalá
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
stop or cut off singing
join up in a song after a pause
raise or start a song or hymn
curse; reviling
curse or reviling
stiff and stubborn (e.g. of disobedient child)
obstinate and uncooperative (e.g. of child)
sideways look; leer; glance
look askance at; view suspiciously; leer
roots of pandanus used as rope for many
purposes
sheepish
sheepishly
general form of greeting; thanks; thank you
render thanks
thank-offering
tall or long
i
al
fg
tp
gawky
tasty grub found in rotting raffia or oil palm
(should, would) have; e.g.
animal sp. ???
subsist or feed on
live; that is alive; living
live; be alive; continue alive
life; being alive; period from birth to death;
mode of living; lifetime; livelihood
lifeless
end life; kill
let live; spare
harpoon; fishing-spear
hair; e.g.
223
ịrú ̣a nọndọ ḅé ̣ ‘an
eclipse of the sun
took place’;
ọgọnó ̣wei nọndọ
ḅé ̣ ‘an eclipse of the
moon took place’
ị mịé-n
̣ timí ‘you
ought to have done
it’ (contraction of nyú ̣ timí)
tịḅị anumọ ‘hair of
head’
tun-numo ‘hymn;
song’
lit. ‘abusive song’
nụngalámọ
nụngala numó
nú ̣ngbáa
n.
adv.
n.p.
a.
nú ̣ngbaráa
nú ̣ngbọ
nụngbọ1
a.
v.i.
v.t.
nụngbọ2
nụngbọ ḍosí
nụnọ, nịnọ
nụnọ imbí
nụnọ kó ̣n
nú ̣nụ
bála nú ̣nụ
n.
v.p.
n.m.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
subj.
+ v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
nụnụ
nụnú ̣mọ
bála nụnụ
ḅịḅị nụnụ
ḍiginụnụ
farịyaị nụnụ
ibolí nụnụ
ógbogbáanụnụ
tọrú ̣ nụnụ
nụnú ̣ma
n.
v.i.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
nụnụma
nụnụmaḅẹlị
n.
n.
nụnụ-obí
nụnú ̣ya
ft
ft
bo
fo
dr
d
length
in a long or tall manner
long life
stiff and stubborn (of a smaller child than
núngbáa)
stiff, obstinate, and dirty-looking (of child)
be charred or singed
char; burn off the hair of an animal after
slaughter; singe; grave (bottom of boat) by
burning off accretions
bonfire; campfire
jump over bonfire
creek
scoop fish in a creek
dam a creek
be pulled, stretched, elongated
be swelled out with wind (of sail)
drag; haul; pull; draw; attract; attune
drag up (to self); make appreciable increase in
height and growth
twitching illness
drag one another
tug-of-war
draw sail for wind
make wry mouth; pout
tug-of-war
tune drums
set (arrow) on string, nock
tug-of-war
grimace; make wry face
fufu from yam, etc.; e.g.
brass anklet
irritation in the throat; tonsilitis (treated by
licking oil from cleaned nụnụma)
NY.
nyáịn
nyaịnmó ̣
nyakámịnyakámị
nyákatáa
nyákatáamọ
nyakíi
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
nyakíi
nyakíimọ
nyámbáa
nyámbáamọ
nyámbiríi
nyámbiríimọ
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
be broken; break
cause to break; disable
feel prickly heat within body
bristly
in a bristly way
heave; rise and fall; rise with alternate falls (as
waves, branch of tree or bed under weight of
animal or man, etc.)
heave; heaving
with a heave
sedate; staid; composed
sedately; staidly
plump; corpulent
plumply
224
ḅurú nụnụma
‘yam fufu’
nyamú ̣
nyamú ̣
nyamú ̣mọ
nyaná
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.t.
nyana-ára
nyana-áye
nyanáḅọ
n.f.
n.pl.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
v.p.
n.
p
p
p
amanyanaḅọkirí
amanyana-oweí
nyángalágha
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
a.
nyángịrị
nyángịrị
nyángịrịmọ
nyangịrímọ
̣
nyánkịnyánkị
nyánkịnyánkịmọ
nyée
nyée
nyéemọ
nyéeyọ
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
nyenenée
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
nyana-ówei
ama nyana
amanyana
amanyana-ará
amanyanaḅó ̣
nyenenéemọ
nyenénenyenéne
nyenénenyenénemọ
nyẹngbéẹ,̣
nyéngbẹẹ
̣
nyẹngbéẹmọ
̣
nyéngelée
nyéngeléemọ
nyengenyengé
nyengenyengémọ
nyéngerée
nyéngeréemọ
nyengérenyengére,
nyéngerenyengere
nyéngerenyengere
mọ
nyenrennyenrén
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
p
p
p
stay long; linger; delay
lingeringly; distantly
acquire; possess; own; have; dominate;
occupy; hold sway
(female) owner
assets; belongings; effects; goods; property
male or female owner; (esp. in referring to
God) lord or lady
male owner; lord
govern; manage; rule; hold sway
governance; act or manner of governing;
holding sway
empress; queen; governess; manageress
monarch; potentate; supreme ruler; president
kingdom; monarchy
emperor; king; governor; manager
respectable; of fair social standing; honest and
decent in conduct; e.g. nyángalágha kụmọ
rock while walking
rock; rocking manner while walking
with a rocking motion
move towards in a rocking manner
frivolous; given to trifling; not serious
frivolously
open; exposed (of sky)
become open (of sky)
without concealment; openly
glade; clear open space or passage between
forest trees
flash
(cf. nyó ̣ngịrị)
(cf. nyẹnẹnéẹ)
̣
with a flash
with a flash
in a flashing way
lazy
adv.
be lazy
lazily
increase, especially in volume; be distended,
swollen out
in a distended manner
be distended
accumulate; collect
accumulative
accumulatively
shake like spherical envelope of liquid in a
container
in a constantly shaking manner
a.
n.
shiny; glistening; washed bright
glistening; shininess
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
(pl. nyana-óngu)
225
(cf. nyéngẹlé
ẹ)
̣
̣
(cf. nyéngẹré
ẹ)
̣
̣
(cf.
nyẹngérẹnyẹngé
rẹ)
̣
̣
nyenrennyenrénmọ
nyéuun
nyéuunmọ
nyéịn
̣
nyéịnmọ
̣
nyẹnẹnéẹ̣
nyẹnẹnéẹmọ
̣
nyẹnénẹnyẹné
nẹ
̣
̣
nyẹnénẹnyẹné
nẹmọ
̣
̣
nyẹmínịnyẹmí
nị
̣
̣
nyẹmínịnyẹmí
nị
̣
̣
nyoun
nyéngẹlé
ẹ̣
̣
nyéngẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
nyéngẹré
ẹ̣
̣
nyéngẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
nyẹngérẹnyẹngé
rẹ,
̣
̣
nyéngẹrẹnyẹngẹrẹ
̣
nyẹngịnyẹngị
nyẹngịnyẹngímọ
̣
nyénị
̣
nyẹní ̣
nyẹnrẹnnyẹnréṇ
nyẹnrẹnnyẹnrénmọ
̣
nyéụụn
̣
nyéụụnmọ
̣
nyingí
nyingi-áma
nyingi-ánga
nyingi-ára
nyingíḅọ
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.p.
in a glistening manner
dense; crowded together
densely; crowdedly
fine and small in grains
finely
flash
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
p
k
k
gbọrị nyingi mụná
n.pl.p k
ers.
n.p.
k
nyingiḅá
n.
nyinrímunyinrímu
nyinrímunyinrímu
mọ
nyinrimúu
a.
adv.
nyinrimúumọ
nyịnrímụnyịnrí
mụ
̣
̣
nyokómunyokómu
adv.
a.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
nyingi-óngu
nyokómunyokómu
a.
(cf. nyenenée)
with a flash
continuously flashing
with a continuous flash
shifting and loose (of sand, wet or dry)
quicksand
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.f.
n.
n.
a.
n.f.
n.f.
(cf. nyéụụn)
̣
increase spherically
accumulate; collect
accumulatively
almost capsizing; nearly filled with water (of
canoe)
very fine and small (of writing)
finely
sink; settle down
depress; push down by force
crystal clear
clearness; transparency
in a very clear manner
become very clear; show pus clearly at tip (of
swelling); be ripe (of boil)
dense; crowded together
densely; crowdedly
A. mother; mama; mum; female parent; dam
motherland
female branch of family
matrilineal
mother; mum; etc.
one that deserves filial reverence; oldest
female member of a house or family
mothers; leading women in a community
uterine brother or sister; relation on the
mother’s side
B. plant from which others are derived
slips of bamboo stick on which the fronds of
the bamboo are woven to form roof mats
tasting hard and raw
with a hard, raw taste
hard and raw, giving the feeling of an
uncooked yam
with a hard, raw feeling
same as nyinrímunyinrímu
pant; gasp; throb (of heart)
gaspingly
226
(cf. nyéngelée)
(cf. nyéngerée)
(cf.
nyengérenyengére)
(cf. nyéuun)
mọ
nyókúu
nyókúumọ
nyomunyomu
nyomunyomúmọ
nyóngbolóo
nyóngbolóomọ
nyóngolóo
nyóngolóomọ
nyónmáa
nyónmáamọ
nyoún
nyoun-áka
nyoúnnyoun
nyó ̣ịịn
nyó ̣ịịnmọ
nyọngịnyọngí ̣
nyọngịnyọngímọ
̣
nyó ̣ngịrị
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
nyó ̣ngịrịmọ
nyó ̣ngịrịnyọngịrị
nyó ̣ngịrịnyọngịrịm
ọ
nyó ̣ngọ
nyó ̣ngọmọ
nyó ̣ngọló ̣ọ
nyó ̣ngọló ̣ọmọ
nyọngọmó ̣
nyó ̣nkụmú ̣ụ
nyungumó ̣
nyungumọ-áye
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.t.
n.pl.
-nyụ
suf.
nyụkú ̣ụ
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
nyụkú ̣ụmọ
nyụkú ̣ụnyụkú ̣ụ
nyụkú ̣ụnyụkú ̣ụmọ
massive
massively
thirsty; feeling thirst
thirstily
grow; develop (huge)
huge; enormous
hugely; enormously
list; lean over to one side (of boat) due to
shifting cargo; incline (of building, person,
etc.)
list; leaning, inclination to one side (of boat)
with a list
calm; quiet
calmly; quietly
sand
whitish gravel or pebbles
sandy; granular
fine; in small particles
in small particles; finely
crowded; closely packed (of people)
in a crowded manner
rock; move to and fro gently while in motion
rocking
very soft
very softly
stoop; deign; condescend
stoopingly
pendulous; hanging down or sideways
pendulously
bend; bow; stoop
flabby; empty-looking (as of stomach)
throw off or away
rubbish; litter; compost; muck; farmyard
manure
shall; will; can; may; e.g.
heave; nod
with heave or nod
heave or nod continuously
continually nodding or heaving
227
(cf. nyángịrị)
á ḅonyú ̣ ‘she will
come, she may
come’
O.
ó
óbi
óbitandígha
̣
opu-óbi
obí
obí
obimó ̣
obibí
óbió
óbió koḅu
óbiókoḅu
óbiókoḅu
obirí
obiri-áka
obiri-íku
obiri-ítuka
obirítọgụ
namakọrị-obiri
obiriékeke
óbolokú ̣ma
obongoro
pron.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
obósi
oburu
oḅiloló
oḅilolólụgụ
óḅilóngo
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
oḅito
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
oḅogoró
oḅogú
oḅogú
oḅogu-áịdẹgẹ
s
h
s
d
cl
da
ap
i
bp
da
da
t
b
r
cl
fr
t
b
p
d
he; him; his
snake (in general)
fence plant; lantana
python
ail; be ill; be sick
illness; sickness; disease
cause to be sick
pricker; spike; pricking instrument
framboesia; yaws
treat yaws with kind of native oil or smear
such treatment for yaws
cloth used in such treatment
dog
canine or eye-tooth
flea
brownish pubic or body hair on children
pup; puppy
hound; hunting dog
borassus palm, fan-palm
bird sp. (unidentified) with melodious voice
leatherback turtle
red cloth
verandah; lobby
green kind of palm-fruit
palm tree bearing this fruit
bird sp. with long neck which dives for fish
African Darter
buffoon; a fool
bay
cold; chill
feel feverish, chill
goose-flesh; bristling of the skin caused by
chill or fright
catch or receive cold
oḅogu-óḅogu
oḅogu-óḅogumọ
oḅókóo
oḅókóo
oḅókóomọ
oḅolo
oḅoloḅagụ
oḅoloḅagụḅó ̣
oḅolo tụá
oḅoloyou
oḅori
oḅoriḅolo
subj.
+ v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
n.
da
h
cold; chilly; feverish; aguish
aguishly; coldly
wide and gaping; yawning
gape; yawn
agape; widely
fist; buffet; shrewd blow
boxing; pugilism
boxer; pugilist
clench hand tightly to form a fist
fisticuffs
goat or sheep (in general); a fool
goatweed
oḅoriḅoloye
n.
h
herb sp.
oḅogú kọrị
d
228
cf. pẹgẹyaí ̣
<Igbo úbiliékeke
Dermochelys
coriacea
Anhinga rufa
lit. "cold is catching
(someone)";
Cyathula prostrata
(Amaranthaceae)
[?] = tọrú ̣-gbalịye
Desmodium sp.
oḅori-ịḅẹlẹkị
oḅorikụgọ
oḅoritọgụ
ḅou-óḅori
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
h
sh
da
m
weed used as medicine
shrub with edible yellow fruit
kid or yearling
water chevrotain
kiri-óḅori
ọnana-oḅori
owei-oḅori
óbu
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
da
da
da
óbu koromọ
oḅuró1
oḅuró2
oḅúróo
oḅúróomọ
odigbá
odigiri
odó
ododó
odokó
odú
ódu ḍói
v.p.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
óduḍói
n.
odúyaị, odúaị
namaodu
n.pl.
n.
odú bomọ
odúbomọ
v.p.
n.
odúḅa
n.
odúdẹrị
odúdọgụ
odúḍiḅi
odú ḍigíi
a.
a.
a.
excl.
odúḍigiḍụḅamọ
odúḍigi-eneni
odúḍigiseimọ
odúḍigitọrú ̣sin
odúḍụḅamọ
odúḍụḅamọ
odúḍụa
odu-ékịḍịá
̣
odu-ékịyetí
ṇ
̣
odúfamọ
odú fị
odúfịna
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
goat
sheep
he-goat
court of a powerful deity or of a league of
powerful men which used force to arbitrate in
all matters affecting two disputing parties in
olden days
lay complaint to an óbu court
roast slowly or lightly; simmer; bake
dust
dusty
dustily
pap; gruel
big wrestling drum
red
red cloth
hawk
A. body; skin; leather
transfigure; transmute; slough; moult; shed
skin
transfiguration; transmutation; moulting;
casting off of skin
blood
skin; leather; hide
B. condition; self
praise oneself; boast
self-glorification; self-laudation; self-praise;
boast
self-execution; self-murder; self-executing;
suicide
self-betraying
self-propelled
self-propagating; self-sown
look out! be vigilant! be careful! be watchful!
take care!
self-regarding
self-pity
self-abhorrence
self-abandonment
self-aggrandizement
arrogant; presumptuous; haughty
self-defence
self-revelation
self-respect; self-reverence; self-esteem
self-destruction; self-destroying
accustom; habituate
self-imposed
mi
co
cl
b
bp
bf
bp
229
Hyemoschus
aquaticus
family Accipitridae
lit. "change body";
odúfuramọ
odúgba
odúgbalị
odugbaná
odu-íderimọ
odu-íkú
odu-íkú
a.
a.
a.
n.
n.
a.
n.
odu íkumọ
odu írụmọ
̣
odu-íyamọ
̣
odúghọḅióḅara
odúghọními
odúghọními
odúghọpaga
odúkasị
odúkasị
odúkọrị
odúkọrị
odúkpo
odúkpọ
odúkụró ̣
odúlamọ
odúlẹgịmọ
odú lọkó ̣
odúlọkó ̣
odú lọkọmọ
odúmịẹḍẹrí ̣
odúmọndịwei
odúnafíya
̣
odúnafíya
̣
odú nimi
odúnyana
odú pigi
odúpigi
odú pou
odúpou
odúpou
v.p.
v.p.
a.
n.
a.
n.
a.
a.
n.
a.
n.
a.
a.
a.
a.
a.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
odúsara
odúsara
odúsei
odúsei
odúseimọ
odú sin
odúsogiomọ
odúsogiomọ
odútarị
odútarị
odútelimọ
odútelimọ
odútịn
odútịn
odú tọlọmọ
a.
n.
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
a.
n.
a.
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
da
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
e
self-fertilizing
self-explaining; self-explanatory
self-feeding; self-supporting; self-sustaining
ram; male of sheep
humility; self-abasement; self-humiliation
lazy; indolent; slothful; lethargic
laziness; indolence; slothfulness; idleness;
lethargy
make lazy
belittle oneself
self-tormenting; self-torturing
self-forgetfulness
self-conscious
self-consciousness
shocking
self-convicted
self-conviction
self-appointed; self-restrained
self-control; self-restraint
self-winding
hardy; capable of endurance
healthy; strong
self-inflicted
self-deceiving; self-deceptive
languish
languid
weaken
self-scorn
rheumatism
self-complacent; self-satisfied; self-content
self-complacence; self-satisfaction
be discreet; know oneself
self-governing
abnegate; deny oneself
self-abnegation; self-denial; self-renunciation
be patient
patient
patience; calm endurance, of pain, or any
provocation; perseverance
smart; brisk; swift
smartness; briskness, etc.
gaunt; haggard; lean
gauntness; leanness, etc.
masturbation, self-pollution
abscond; flee; run
self-conceited
self-conceitedness; self-exaltation; boast
selfish
self-love
self-taught
self-education
self-accusing; self-accusatory; self-styled
self-accusation
preen; trim feathers or self; prepare; make
230
(of birds, etc.)
odútọlọmọ
odútọndị
odú tú ̣ọ
odútú ̣ọ
odútụọmọ
odúwagịmọḍigí
odúwori
odúaị
n.
a.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.pl.
odugbaná
odugurú
kala-odugurú
opu-odugurú
oḍóḅáị
oḍóḅáịmọ
oḍu1
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
oḍu-imbí
oḍu-imbi opogoló
oḍu-ịsịye
oḍu mina
ḅịla-óḍu
oḍu2
n.
n.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
oḍuó
v.t.
ofo1
n.m.
f
ofo2
ofógori
ofógoriḅọ
s
ofokó
ofokó ḅió pin
ofoni1
n.m.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
b
ofoni-aḅụọkpatị
ofoni-ama-ama
n.m.
n.
c
m
da
a
a
a
ap
t
ap
m
ofoni-ama-nanama-na-amatengi
ofonimunumọ
ofoni-obi
ofoni-otoin
ofonipán
ofonitọgụ
ofoniwarị
kiri-ófoni
e
e
bf
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
v
bm
da
ready
preparation
self-luminous
perspire; sweat
perspiration; sweating
promoting perspiration
self-examination
self-cursing
blood
ram; male of sheep
room; apartment
boudoir; small room
chamber; big room
heavy, thick and unpolished (of art and craft)
heavily and thickly (carved)
tusk of ivory; all ivory work; trumpet; growth
on tail of certain snakes and on ventral fin of
certain fishes
button
button-hole
plant sp. with rough leaves; sand-paper
sound a trumpet
elephant tusk
peel (something) with much flesh attached to
the bark; e.g. oḍu kará
tie animal skin or velum to drum casing or
barrel; tie fish hook to a line; tie a harpoon to
a staff or handle
fish sp. African moony; angelfish
also ịrẹsinyaị,
odúyaị, puló
(pr. oḍimbí)
Ficus asperifolia
(or oḍu sogú v.p.)
Monodactylus
sebae; family
Pomacanthidae
horned viper
inanition; emptiness
empty braggart
short-windedness
be out of breath
fowl; bird in general
lobster sp.
Lord Derby’s anomalure (Derby’s flying
squirrel)
Beecroft’s anomalure (Beecroft’s flying
squirrel)
ivy
catalepsy; convulsion; epilepsy; fit
small boil on the face
cock-crow
chick; chicken
fowl-pen; mat-roof of canoe
fowl (of the ground)
231
class Aves (cf.
egéle; ọgó ̣nọ-ofoni)
Anomalurus
derbianus
Anomalurus
beecrofti. Lit. ‘bird
of the man of the
village’ [?]
ọgó ̣nọ-ofoni
ofoni2
ofoni3
n.m.
n.m.
n.
b
i
bm
bird of the air
chrysalis; pupa (of insect)
pimples; acne;
oforofo
oforokpo
n.
a. &
n.
bp
windpipe or trachea
counterfeit; (thing) made in imitation; not
genuine; inferior;
ofúro
ofuro
v.i.
v.t.
ofuromó ̣
v.t.
ofuroye1
ofuroye2
n.
n.
ogbidoro
ogbígbi
ogbó1
ogbó1
ogbókuḅu
ogbó pagamọ
noin-ogbo
tọrụ-ogbo
ogbó2
n.
n.
n.
a.
n. &
a.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
ógbo sú ̣ọ
ogbó sụọ
ogbósuọ
ogbó3
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
centre; centralize
middle of night
middle of river; midstream
club; company; fellowship; guild;
brotherhood; league; group; party
be mixed
join a club or league
group; league
time;
ebi-ogbó
ogbodoin
n.
n.
h
more suitable place or group
bush cane
ogbogba
ogbogba
ógbogbáanụnụ
ogbogboniḅa
a.
n.
n.
n.
ogbogboniḅada
ogboín
n.
n.
fr
thick (of cloth); tough (of meat)
thickness or toughness
tug-of-war
beam of house; ridge-piece; ridge pole; ridge
tree
king- or queen-post
mango in general
akpákpa-ogboin
ḅéken’ogboin
ịyọrọ-ogboin
owei-ogboin
ogbokó
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
fr
fr
fr
fr
b
wind (native) mango
imported mango varieties
imported mango variety with smaller fruits
imported mango variety with larger fruits
heron
ogbolo
n.m.
f
fish sp.
mi
d
tr
e.g. tọrú ̣kuḅu
ofoni ‘pimples of
the face’
e.g. popo-óforofo
e.g. oforokpo kasa
‘inferior fish sp.
frame’
be blown
blow; send strong air-current from mouth;
hoot or whistle (as steamer, launch; etc.)
insufflate; blow air into nose of a hound; (of
snake) hiss at a victim to kill it
flute; fife; whistle, etc.
jaundice; yellow fever; malaria; ague;
shivering fit
dregs; less; sediment
necromancy
centre; middle; midst
central; middle
centre; central
232
e.g. tịtarị ogbo
‘first time’
Coster afer (same
as opóto)
(Zingiberaceae)
Irvingia gabonensis
(Irvingiaceae)
family Ardeidae (cf.
kịánkururu;
kurukuruḅou;
pịnáḅou)
Heterotis niloticus
ogbomu
ogboni
n.m.
v.t.
ogboni
ogborokílo
n.
n.m.
ogbudú
ogian
ogidí1
alapụ-ogidí
ísene-ógidi
ogidikirífụngọama
ḅọ
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.f
.
ms
to
wp
wp
p
ogidí2
n.
bp
ogidí3
n.
tp
ogiga
ógilogíri
ogio occurs in
ogiopolotiri
n.
n.
n.
dr
ogiongion
ogiri
ógo
ogodo
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
ogodoḍigísẹgị
n.
ogóni
n.m.
ogorá
ógorómba
ogósi
ogú
oguára
ogugu
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
ogúgúu
ogúgúumọ
ógumágala
ogumasirí
ogúmogú
ogúnu
ogúnuwarị
a.
adv.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
ogurú
n.
f
tr
d
fo
m
c
la
r
mi
b
f
m
bowl; basin
persecute; pursue with enmity and injury
(especially holder of opinion held to be
heretical); assault jointly
persecution; joint assault
barracuda
nursery for puppies
masquerade type
matchet; cutlass
sword
sacrificial knife
dwarf; midget; pigmy; pygmy; extremely
small person much below the size of ordinary
man
curved thickened shinbone (sabre tibia) due to
yaws
scraps sliced from mangrove wood; sliver;
hence angala ogidi
ornament of the head
bubble of soap blown into air; soap bubble
arena into which people suspected of
witchcraft are brought for public post-mortem
examination after death; now, a place where
corpses of people of high caste in N embe
society (furoébi-ongu) and brought for last
lying-in-state before burial
asthma
Igbo condiment
namesake
black-fronted duiker
Sphyraena spp. cf.
ḍọrọ, mindiógboro
hence obiri ógbudu
(cf. okionkion)
Cephalophus
nigrifrons
after-glow; glow of setting sun; gloaming;
evening twilight
bronze masks and works of art used by early
N embe settlers
corrugation; edgeways
rope obtained from oil palm mid-rib
small snail
twenty in game of cards
giant; man in the moon
depression; ravine; pit; gully; any concave or
hollow surface
hollow; concave
concavely; hollowly
chameleon
market
thumb-piano, sansa, mbira
bird sp. (unidentified) with long tail
fish sp.; snapper sp.
yellow-backed duiker
233
(see okéreke, ó ̣bọ)
Lutjanus sp. cf.
agbára
Cephalophus
silvicultor
oguga
n.
ogugú
ohóo
ói
ojé
ojeye
ojígo, ozígo
ójilée
okéreke
n.m.
excl.
excl.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
óki
oki
oki
okílo
f
okilolo
n.m.
v.i.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
okio
n.
la
okionkion
okiri
ókirínga1
ókirínga2
ókiríngatịn
ḅéken’okiringa
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
d
da
wt
tp
t
cr
okó
okóḅa1
okóḅa2
n.
n.
n.
ap
okoḅia
n.m.
f
okogoló
n.
t
tree sp. and fruit used as spice; African
nutmeg;
okóko1
n.m.
b
grey parrot
okókoḅara
ala-okóko
a.
n.
b
okóko2
okolaíṇ
n.
n.m.
ga
b
abadị-ókolaịn
okólo
okólokuḅu
okólo-ogbo
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
b
la
la
la
al
mi
he
ga
mi
p
la
door-panel made of raffia-palm poles and
moved on ropes acting as rollers
animal with very thick hide
expression of surprise
shout
wrestling drum
brass; brasswork
local mat
children"s game; mock tug-of-war
thumb-piano, sansa, mbira, musical
instrument with nine keys
sawfish
swim
swimming
musician; singer; songster
brook; rill; rivulet; runlet; runnel; spring;
stream; fountain
freshet; rush of freshwater; flowing into sea;
flood of river from heavy rain; hence
okiomindi
asthma
castrated he-goat
harmattan
cotton, cotton wool; kapok
cotton plant; kapok
cultivated cotton plant; cotton wool for
wounds
active force of sẹkịapụ club
cowry
wattle; red fleshy growth around the eyes of
boa or python and other snakes, and birds like
drake, turkey, etc.
parrot-like; psittacine
king parrot; said to have red plumage all over
the body as on the tail
children’s game
curlew
curlew sp.
creek
bed of river; channel
bed of river; centre of river; channel
234
(same as ikísa)
(see ogúmogú,
ó ̣bọ)
Pristis spp.
(cf. ogiongion)
Parachanna
obscura. =
ágbagú ̣rụ,
mumbeí
Monodora
myristica
(Annonaceae)
Psittacus erithacus
(cf. ala-okóko)
Numenius sp. (cf.
abadị-ókolaịn;
abadí-okolaịn;
̣
mụmọgbọlụ)
ọbụ-ókolo
ọbụ-ókolokuḅuimgba
Okoloḅa
n.
n.
bp
bp
hollow of back
back-bone
okoloḅana’abanga
n. &
a.
n.
Bonny; pertaining to Bonny
okoloḅan’abanga
okombó
ókombóko
okongo
n.
v.i.
n.m.
n.
ọkụma-ókongo
warị-ókongo
okoróḅa
okoroko
ókoróngo
okori
okori
okorimó ̣
okoróḅa
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
n.
v.t.
n.
f
common species of banana, longer than
osokpo
banana plant
gape upon
masquerade type
empty shell, especially of snail; hence osiókongo; skeleton of building; underlying
support or essential substructure of anything;
frame
frame of drum
frame of building
small tilapia sp.
snake sp.
drum spp. (fish)
barren (of land); jejune
barrenness; jejuneness
make barren
small tilapiine fish
ókoróngo
n.
f
meagre (‘meagre drum sp.’); drum
okosi
okosi
okosiḅọ
okosighá
okosimó ̣
okosiyaị
okóto
okótugu
a.
n.
n.m.f
.
a.
v.t.
n.pl.
n.m.
n.
okpo [?]
n.
okpó
ókpodódo
okpóko-lodudu
n.
n.
n.
okpokoro
okpókpo
okpokpo
tịḅị-okpokpo
okpómina
okpongbó
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
okporó
ókporóko
okporóku
n.m.
n.m.
n.
fr
fr
ms
ap
mi
a
f
s
f
old; adult; elder; senior; aged; senile
age; senility
old man; adult; elder; senior
c
bo
m
fr
d
bp
f
dr
am
fo
ageless; never growing old
age; olden; cause to grow old
conversation about sex matters
crab sp. found in bush freshwater streams
spot on which the spirit of sẹkịapụ club is
supposed to be resident
plant sp.
old leaking canoe
serious quarrel
cusimanse
nut (of palm-fruit), hence okpokoro imbi
foot-rot
skeleton; skull; scalp
skull; scalp
giant sea catfish (‘broad-headed sea catfish’)
spiral anklets from knee to ankle worn by
women at various ceremonies
frog with long legs
stockfish
trough; long unopened canoe for making palm
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Umbrina spp.
family Cichlidae.
cf. ẹgụrụḅa
Argyrosomus
regius; Umbrina
spp.
(pl. okosi-ongú)
Ctenolophon
englerianus
(Ctenolophonaceae)
Crossarchus
obscurus
Arius gigas
oil (especially hard oil in the past)
lonesome
(be) dull
okpótúu
okpótúumọ
ókpoyaị
a.
a. &
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.m.
b
ókpun
n.
tr
okpúru
okpútu
okuḅó
okúkúu
okúkúumọ
okún
okurú
n.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.m.
n.m.
fo
ókụrụ
olibi
n.
n.m.
cr
s
olikí
oló1
ịyọrọ-oló
owei-oló
oló2
olópulo
olósú ̣ọ
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
okpósóo
okpótúu
imbi-oló
oló3
olo-ára
olóḅọ
olo-ówei
oló4
olo saí ̣
ologo
ologonimiḅó ̣
ologo tụá
ḅẹ-ólogo
oyiaḅẹ-ólogo
olóko1
olókokụmọ
olóko2
olóko2
olóko3
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
he
t
t
t
p
p
p
e
e
p
he
sf
dullness
dully
ostrich
Struthio camelus;
not a local bird
shrine; house or enclosure marking the spot
where a deceased ancestor is supposed to be;
cenotaph
farina soaked in pepper soup and oil
carrion
bring; assimilated form of ẹkị ḅó
hollow; concave
hollowly; concavely
mortar for pounding
bag (usually) of leopard skin decorated with
small bells hung by juju of highest rank
okra plant and fruit
black cobra
pilfer; steal
boundary tree
species with small leaves
species with large leaves
pomade; white oil
heated oil that has become white
become white in frying process (of oil)
coconut oil
make love with
concubinage; cohabiting of man and woman
not legally married
female lover
lover; concubine
Naja melanoleuca.
cf. angalatuguwéí
Dracaena sp.
(pl. olo-óngu)
male lover
grief; deep sorrow; keen regret
grieve; give deep sorrow to; utter abuses and
cry
decree; code; law; statute; doom
lawyer
enact (law); decree
commandment
ten commandments
jug
imaginary person; monster
be hollowed; be dug out
hollow; not solid
[rhomboid mussel?] ‘whelk or buckie’
236
[Modiolus
rhomboideus. ex
RF?] class
olókosịngị
n.
olokó
ololi
v.t.
v.i.
ololi ḅịá
ololiḅịá
ololimó ̣
ololo
ololo-ịkará or
ololo-ịkaraká
olomaịn
ólominókporu
oloseí
oloseí
oloseíkụmọ
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
f
bp
d
olósẹkịaḅa
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
olótu
olú
olu-ópogolo
olútụngba
ala-olú
ikpiri-olú
ịyọrọ-olú
owei-olú
olúlu
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
olúlu ḅọgọ
olulumó ̣
olúlu paga
olúlu sụọ
óma
v.p.
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
ómangị
ómangịnẹngị
ómbu
n.m.
n.m.
n.
p
groin
lockjaw; mumps; tetanus
cruel; wicked; tyrannical
cruelty; wickedness; tyranny
tyrant; wicked person
b
dove
p
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
champion (especially in wrestling)
land crab
hole of land crab
leg of land crab
yellowish-brown land crab
black and dirty land crab
female land crab
male land crab
pass through a narrow aperture; go in or out
furtively or secretly; sneak; slink
sneak out, past, away
sneakingly
sneak out, off, away
sneak in
measure; grade
ómbu
ombú
ombúmọ
ombumó ̣
ombu
ombuḍigi
ombu koro
ombukoro
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
Gastropoda
catfish sp., described as sickly and emaciated
order Siluriformes
with big head and hollow and flabby sides
cut (something) with the flesh; hollow; dig out
languish; pine; waste away from disease but
not die quickly
(of fruits) become ripe immaturely
such immature ripeness
(of disease) cause to languish
bottle
broken pieces of bottle
bp
bp
Streptopelia sp.
(identified as a
turtle dove, but
there are no local
spp.)
two-gallon pot
3-gallon pot
A. weak point (usually a hole from the pith of
the wood) that occurs just below the stern
(rarely on the bow) of a carved canoe
B. the tip of coconut shell first cut open
before the body is broken into three parts
be sharp, sharp-pointed
sharply
sharpen
navel; umbilicus
navel-string; umbilical cord
drop or fall off (of navel-string from newborn
baby)
falling-off of navel-string
237
see Exodus 16:1636
ombuloú
n.
omí
v.t.
(of lips) suck in; hence
omíngoo
omíngoomọ
omongi
omongi
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.m.
omongimó ̣
omoni
omoni-ará
omoniḅó ̣
v.t.
n.
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.m.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.m.
n.m.
(of fame) queer; strange
queerly; strangely
grow weak and feeble
smallest member of a litter or brood; runt;
(anthony in the case of pigs)
cause to grow small; stunt; dwarf
slavery; slave
female slave
slave; human chattel; bond-man; bond-slave
omoni-ábangá
omoni fé ̣
omonifé ̣
omonifịrị
omonikiri
omonikọndụ
omoni-ongu
omoni-owei
omoniwarị
óndo
ondomó ̣
ondo
óndoḅá
ongorí1
ongorí2
ongorímọ
t
da
p
p
p
fr
p
p
p
cl
f
tree sp. and fruit,
plantain cultivar
deal in slaves
dealing in slaves; slave-dealing
bond service
bondage; serfdom
first male slave
slaves; serfs
male slave
house of bondage; place of confinement
wash anus after stool
cause to wash anus
tie cloth or put hand between legs
cloth type
snake eel sp.
v.t.
v.t.
& i.
n.
fg
n.pl.p
ers.
scrape the bottom of container
fold loin cloth up to thighs
-ongu
suf.
suffixed to nouns or to the root of verbs to
form plural noun signifying persons or
practitioners (see under -ḅọ, to which it acts
as plural):
oní
óno
ononi
ononi
v.t.
n.
a.
v.i.
ononimọ
ononimó ̣
adv.
v.t.
slaughter; kill for food
large building; barracks
languid; spiritless
pine; languish; put on languid look; waste
away
languidly; languorously; languishingly
make to languish
ongoró
ongu
Chrysobalanus
orbicularis
ḅịḅị omi ‘sucked-in
lips’
fish trap
collection of people
238
family
Ophichthidae. cf.
mindi-óḅolịa
e.g. mein óngu
ḅoyó ‘these people
are coming’
e.g. ama ‘village’,
ama-ongu
‘villagers’; yoú
‘fight’ you-óngu
‘fighters’; furu
‘thieve’ furu-ongu
‘thieves’ telimó ̣
‘teach’ telimọ-óngu
‘teachers’
onu
onweín
onwein-árụ
onwein-ónwein
onwoin1
onwoinyọ
onwoin2
onwoínmọ
onwoinye
ónya1
n.
n.
n.
a.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
a.
ónya1
ónyamọ
ónyayọ
ónya2
ónyaḅọ
v.i.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
excl.
excl.
v.i.
v.t.
ónya sụọ
ónya tịẹ
ónyaye
onyé
óo
oó
ópo
opó
opó
opówọrịoḅọ
opogolo
opoli
opolomó ̣
bo
barricade
smoke; reek; vapour
ship
sooty; dusky; smoky
bite; nip with teeth
bite; wound made by bite
bail, bale (water)
bail, bale (into something)
bailer
efficacious; producing desired effect (of
medicine)
be efficacious
efficaciously
efficaciousness; efficacy
witness; testimony; evidence
eye-witness
v
bear witness
stand surety or witness
testimony; evidence
flowers of cotton tree
oh! (expressing various emotions)
oh! (expressing various emotions)
be peeled
A. peel in long strips
B. castrate; geld; spay; bark (a tree)
eunuch
cavity; gap; hole; hollow; leak
round basket for keeping fish; big kpọtụ
twist bush cane rope for urgent work; bark (a
tree)
blister
full of husks or sheaths (e.g. of maize)
plentifulness of husks
with plenty of husks
pig; swine
weed sp.
piglet
sty; piggery
bush cane sp.;
n.m.
c
big; great; ample; important; high in rank;
eminent; immense; elaborate; copious;
extensive (of families); much
greatness; importance; highness; eminence
greatly; amply; immensely; copiously; much;
eminently; elaborately
dyed feathers of assorted colours used for
ornament; plume
generic term for lobsters, mudshrimps.
n.m.
n.m.
i
c
insect sp.
crayfish sp.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
opóma
opóráa
opóráa
opóráamọ
opóropo
opóropoḅeri
opóropotọgụ
opóropowarị
opóto
n.
a.
n.
adv.
n.m.
n.
n.
n
n.
opú
a.
opú
opumó ̣
n.
adv.
ópuló
n.
opúlo
ópumbosúosúo
opuro
p
fg
da
h
da
239
(pl. ónya-ongu)
<Portuguese porco
Coster afer (see
ogbodoin)
e.g. Squilla locusta,
Callianassa
turnerana;
ópur’ánga
n.
sh
shrub sp. and its fruit.
opurotịḅị
opuru-anga
n.
n.
bp
h
prepuce; foreskin
herb sp.
opusaní ̣
ópuwárị1
ópuwárị2
orá
cr
big peppers; capsicums
big house or family
big meeting house for traditionalists
his (plural form)
óro
n.
n.
n.
poss.
pron.
pron.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
oro
orodó
oropo
n.
v.t.
n.
oróri or oróro
ororí or ororó
oru
oru
oru jigé
orujigé
oru karị
orukarị
orukarị
oru koro
orukoro
oru siḅa
orusiḅa
órugurú
v.i.
v.t.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
adv.
orupogí
osí
osi-ákụlala
akpakpafa-ósi
ósigíri
osikó
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
m
c
bf
i
osíokokoríko
osisi
n.
n.m.
t
f
osoḅaị1
osoḅaị2
n.
n.
fg
d
orí
órikó
oriyá
oriyó
oriyó pogi
oriyópogi
oriyópogiḅọ
tr
ap
t
hr
pp
tr
tr
tr
he
red tail feather of parrot; hence órikó pụkọ
tree sp.
secret talks
eavesdrop; hide to listen to secrets
eavesdropping
eavesdropper
mat woven with stems of an aquatic plant of
sedge family
gutter
commune
bark of plantain or banana stem or some trees;
hence ábanga óropo
be gnawed in; be bored in
gnaw in; bore into
god; deity;
idol; fetish
be possessed by a spirit initially
initial stage of being possessed by a spirit
worship juju
traditional religion
relating to traditional religion
continue to be possessed by a spirit
continuing state of possession
be in possession of juju
possession of juju
all the time; ever before;
small bat sp.
snail
snail’s slimy secretion; seminal emission
slug
sugar
strips of thread for tying round the waist;
apron
tree sp. with long broad leaves
fish sp.; snapper sp. ?pigsnout grunt
(‘pigfish’)
two or more pronged harpoon or fish-spear
urinary disease; strangury
240
Tristemma hirtum
(Melastomaceae)
Melastomastrum
theifolium (G Don)
A & R Fernandes
(Melastomataceae)
< ‘great’ + ‘pepper’
(see epiyé)
e.g. órugurú ghọ
or órugurúm bịsẹ
family Chiroptera
< English sugar
(see ósuan)
Lutjanus sp.;?
Pomadasys rogerii.
cf. agbára
osokosóko
osokpo1
osokpo2
osóru
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
fr
fr.
ósuan
n.
t
ósumogbúgburu
ósun
ósun-alá
ósunḅọ
i
osunga
osungbo1
osungbo2
osungboḍigi
ábanga-ósungbo
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
andị-ósungbo
n.
bp
igíri-osungbo
n.
bp
Nzọn’ósungbo
n.
bm
osuó
osuo-íboli
osuómindi
oti1
oti1
oti1
otimó1̣
oti2
oti2
oti2
otimó2̣
otiyọ
otiotioḅa
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
wt
wt
wt
otípou
otípou
otíta
otiti1
v.t.
n.
n.
n.m.
wt
b
otiti2
n.m.
ms
otiti tíṇ
oto1
oto2
v.p.
n.
n.
otómọ
v.t.
i
tr
tr
g
i
v
pp
banana plant
banana plant
style of tying women’s head very high
grub found in decaying stick or manure heap;
yam beetle larva
tree sp. with long broad leaves and small
spines on the body, not suitable for firewood
scorpion
only occurs in the expressions:
priesthood of those who give wine to a deity
one that gives wine to a deity
Musa cavendishii
Musa cavendishii
(see osíokokoríko)
grass in general
millipede; stupid person
only occurs in;
slender liana sp.
row of infertile seed embedded in plantain and
banana fruit
nerve from centre of brow to nose which
swells out when person is annoyed
nerve running from anus to scrotum or vulva
in the case of females
heavy tribal mark cut from the centre of the
forehead to the ridge of the nose by Njọ in
olden days
rain
rainbow
rainwater
barren; childless
become barren or childless
barrenness; childlessness
make barren
shallow; of little depth
become shallow (of deep wound); shoal
shallowness
make shallow
shallow place; shoal
glow of rising or setting sun; twilight;
gloaming
circumcise female organ
circumcision of female genital organ
fog; mist
Senegal coucal
Centropus
senegalensis
masquerade type and dance rehearsal
performed at the death of people of high caste
(furo-ébi)
dance such play
corridor; lane; path
unit of count in fish trade;
e.g. indi óto ‘20
frames of fish’;
kasa otó ‘100
empty frames’
measure up; approach full measure
241
otoḅá
n.m.
otoḅá
otoḅa-ánda
otoín
agbagba-ótoin
ofoni-otoin
otokolo
otóku1
otóku2
otolo
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
otómọ
otondoriḅa
otongbolo
otongbolo-warị
otóngoi
otóngoiwarị
nama-otóngoi
otosi
otóto
v.t.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
conj.
m
hippopotamus
ms
masquerade performance depicting the
hippopotamus
(see under andá)
abscess; boil; carbuncle; tumour
carbuncle; anthrax
small boil on the face
island; isle
crayfish; shrimp
pistil cell of citrus fruits filled with juice
soft part of the belly around the pelvis, often
bulging out
measure up; approach full measure
fontanel
mosquito
mosquito-netting
wasp
vespiary; wasps’ nest
wasp seen on fresh fish or meat
whitlow
notwithstanding; in spite of the fact that;
albeit; although; nevertheless;
bm
bm
bm
la
c
pp
bp
i
i
i
i
B. if; on the condition or supposition that; in
the even that; in case;
otóto
ótu
ótu kọrị
otumó
otumódụ
otumófa
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
otumópagara
otumósa
otumótụawei
ma-otúmo
otuo
otuo
otuo-ẹfẹrẹ
otuómọ
otuoye
ovin
ovin-tọgụ
ovíri
ovíri
owei1
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
a. &
n.
bp
ap
bp
dr
i
da
da
p
goal, in some kinds of game
reach goal; (idiomatic) die
vulva; vagina; anus; tail
tail
tailless; hence
buttocks; hips; fundament
adultery fee
knickers; shorts; trousers
insect sp.; silverfish
collect; contribute; pay collection
contribution; collection
collection or offertory plate
collect up
collection
cow
calf
suffer; undergo pain
pain; anguish; suffering
male; masculine; of the sex that begets
offspring or performs the fecundating function
(used of persons or animals, birds); any part
of a mechanism that bears the ball or pin for
the socket
242
Hippopotamus
amphibius
e.g. ẹrí otóto
ka
̣
mịétẹ
̣ ifiémị ‘in
spite of the fact that
even you have done
(it)’
e.g. ị ḅo ḅóa otóto
wa tíịn
̣ ‘in the even
that you come, call
us’
otumófa ovin
‘tailless cow’
owei-ágbọkó
owei-álapá
n.
n.
r
f
male agama lizard
jellyfish (male) with long flagella
oweiḅọ
oweiongu-okí
oweitọgụ
owei2
oweimó ̣
owei tẹíṇ
owoló
owomó ̣
oworóworoḅa
n.m.
n.
n.m.
a.
v.t.
a.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
p
tp
oworóworoḅa sụó ̣
owoso
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
man; male being
(swimming) trudgen-stroke
male-child
powerful; aromatic (of gin, etc.)
make powerful or more serious or furious
prepotent; more powerful than others
pit; abyss; bottomless chasm
blight; wither; shrivel; scathe
wood decay in log where the sapwood has
been eaten up leaving only fragments of
heartwood and the bark
such decay has set in
t
timber-yielding tree; black afara
ḍaḅa ḅio-owoso
n.
t
‘swamp owoso’
owu1
owu gbeín
owusara
n.m.
v.p.
n.
ms
owu (ḅei) 2
n.
bp
oyi
oyiesí
oyikaramọ
num.
num.
a. &
adv.
num.
n. &
a.
n.
masquerade; masked play
play masquerade
principal waterside on which masquerade
performs fụláprị ceremony
afterbirth; caul; membrane enveloping foetus;
loosely it refers to placenta too
ten
two hundred
tenth; tenthly
oyiọndẹ
oyóyo
ozígo
p
he
four thousand
perfect paragon or beauty; very beautiful
thing
mat
243
cf. álapá, ịyọrọálapá
(pl. owei-ongu)
expression of praise
Nauclea
vanderguchtii (De
Wild.) Petti Syn.
sarcocephalus
nervosus
(Rubiaceae)
Nauclea
vanderguchtii (De
Wild.) Petti Syn.
sarcocephalus
nervosus
(Rubiaceae). cf.
owoso
= ojígo
Ọ.
ọ
pron.
second person plural pronoun; you, ye; also
possessive your;
ó ̣ba
ọba
Ọba-ama
ọbọ́ ̣rụ
ó ̣bọ
n.m.
n.m.
p.n.
n.
n.
f
mi
ọbọdọgọ
n.
cr
ó ̣ḅọkọḅụọ
ọbọlọ
ó ̣bọó ̣nya
n.
n.
n.
h
ọbú ̣
ọbụ-áḅịḅị
ọbụ-ánga
ọbú ̣ ḅó ̣gọ
ọbú ̣ḅó ̣gọ
ọbú ̣ ḅó ̣gọghá
ọbú ̣ḅó ̣gọgha
ọbú ̣ ḅọgọ
ọbú ̣ḅọgọ
ọbú ̣ḅụgọ
ọbú ̣dụ
ọbú ̣ ghọ ḅé ̣
ọbụ-ímgbụ
̣
ọbụó ̣bụ
ọbụ-ókolo
ọbụókolokuḅuimgba
ọbú ̣ sụọ
ọbú ̣sụọ
ó ̣bụ tú ̣a
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.
n.
ọbú ̣tongu
n.
move into chambers for consultation (of case)
movement into chambers for consultation
go astern; go backwards; fall back; retreat;
back-water
backside; posterior
ọbú ̣kọ
ọbụrú ̣
ó ̣ḅa
ó ̣ḅakírị̣
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
afterwards; in the sequel
hold collectively; hold many objects
deceit
very small canoe
go
t
dc
dc
dc
v.p.
n.
v.p.
bo
large calabash
king of Benin; Ọba of Benin
Benin city
unidentified freshwater fish sp.
thumb-piano, sansa, mbira, musical
instrument with two faces on a broad flat
board
cassava cv. with very high cyanide content
and hence very poisonous
common climbing weed
wrestling trick; deadly grip; strangle-hold
umbrella tree
e.g. ọ nẹmú ̣yo ‘you
are mad’; mamá ọ
yaí ‘these
are yours
̣
(or your own)’
cf. ogúmogú or
okéreke
(see ọgá)
Musanga
cecropioides
(Moraceae) (see
also gọmụ)
back; behind; exterior
gossip
backside; posterior
dance back turning properly to rhythm
such dancing
dance back not turning to rhythm
dancing back without turning to rhythm
move into chambers for consultation (of case)
movement into chambers for consultation
back door; posterior gate or door
aback; backwards
slander; speak ill of
spinal column
backward; behind; stealthy
hollow of the back
backbone
244
In the following
expressions ọbú ̣
means ‘back of’:
hence arụ-ọbụ;
ḅara-ó ̣bụ; ḅẹlẹọbụ; asú ̣n-ó ̣bụ;
ḅụọ-ọbụ; ḍiri-ọbụ;
ẹfẹrẹ-ọbụ
ọḅárị
ọḅọ
n.
n.m.
r
gum; resin; pitch; tar
African softshell turtle
ó ̣ḅọkọḅú ̣ọ
ọḅọkọló ̣
erema ọḅọkọló ̣
owei-ongu ọḅọkọló ̣
ó ̣wọmá ọḅọkọlọ
ọḅó ̣pụ
h
a
a
a
a
c
common climbing weed
area used as public latrine
women’s latrine
men’s latrine
children’s latrine
moulting crab, etc.; any weakling;
ọḅọró ̣
ọḅọró ̣
ọḅó ̣rụ
ọḅụgó ̣
n.
n.
n.p.
n.p.
n.p.
n.m.
& a.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
ft
ft
f
m
hunt for fish with harpoon
hunting fish with harpoon
freshwater fish sp.
colobid and cercopithecine monkey. [Applies
to several species in N embe, the white-nosed
guenon and the mona monkey.]
akan-ọḅụgọ
n.m.
m
putty-nosed monkey; putty-nosed guenon
ege-ọḅụgọ
n.m.
m
olive colobus monkey
kesi-ọḅụgọ
n.m.
m.
mona monkey
kẹké-ọḅụgọ
̣
n.m.
m
Sclater’s monkey; Sclater’s guenon
ọḅụgó ̣ḅara
ọḅụgọ-ídu
n.
n.
he
h
wooden ladle
plant sp. and its yellow fruits
ọḅụgọ-ígbiri
n.
h
plant sp. and its seed, used as rattle.
ọḅụgó ̣lụgụ
ọḅụgó ̣lụgụ gbein
ọḅụgọtandígha
̣
n.
v.p.
n.
ọḅú ̣rụ
ọdẹlé1̣
ọdẹlé2̣
ó ̣dị
ó ̣dị
n.
n.m.
n.
a.
v.i.
ó ̣dị
ó ̣dịmọ
ọdịmó ̣
n.
adv.
v.t.
ọdịmó ̣ kọrí ̣
ọdịmó ̣ tụá
ó ̣dị paga
ó ̣dị sụọ
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
t
b
bp
standing on the head; headstand
stand on the head as acrobatic feat
thorny tree, the roots of which are used as
tonic medicine
decaying remains of thistle
vulture
ganglion
of small space; tight; compact
become tight or compact; become jammed,
especially in the end of a hole or an enclosure
tightness; compactness; squeeze
in a tight condition; compactly; tightly
jam or squeeze (thing) against something;
push (thing) together into a small space
capture without struggle in an enclosure
squeeze in; force in
force way out of a tight place; squeeze out
force entry into a tight place; squeeze out
245
Trionyx triunguis.
Also recorded as
ọḅọr
hence ọḅó ̣pụ-ịkọlị
cf. akan-ọḅụgọ,
ege-ọḅụgọ, kesiọḅụgọ, kẹké-̣
ọḅụgọ,
Cercopithecus
nictitans. Cf.
ọḅụgọ
Procolobus verus.
Also recorded as
ége. Cf. ọḅụgọ
Cercopithecus
mona. Lit. ‘true
monkey’. Cf.
ọḅụgọ
Cercopithecus
sclateri. Cf. ọḅụgọ
Masaenda isertiana
(Rubiaceae)
Eriocoelum
pungens var.
inermis
(Sapindaceae)
family Accipitridae
ó ̣dị sụọ
ọdídí
̣ ị̣
v.p.
a.
ọdídí
̣ ịmọ
̣
ó ̣dụgụbíạ
ọdụó ̣lụ
ọḍịa
adv.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
ọḍírị̣
v.i.
ọḍírịmọ
̣
ọḍịrịmó ̣
ó ̣ḍọ
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
ó ̣ḍọmọ
ọḍọmó ̣
ọḍọmó ̣ye
ọḍú ̣
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
ọḍú ̣a
n.
ó ̣fịn
ọfịn
ọfịnmó ̣
ọfịnyé
ọfịọ1
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
a.
e
n.
d
ọfịọ2
ọfịrí ̣
ọfịrịḅió
n.
ọfịrịloló
ọfịrímọ
̣
n.
adv.
ọfịrịmó ̣
ọfịrịma
v.t.
n.m.
ọfịrịma-aká
ọfịrịma-ịḅẹlẹkị
ọfọịn
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.pl.
ọfọịn-aye
i
fg
f
fo
f
bp
fp
force entry into a tight place; squeeze in
rudimentary (of organ); imperfectly
developed
in an imperfectly developed manner
wasp sp.
fishing stick for pinning screens
freshwater fish sp.; tailspot ctenopoma
be weighed down with (load, work, cares,
punishment, etc.)
in a weighed-down manner
weigh down
abstinent; not liking some food
be abstinent
abstinence; habit of refraining from many
kinds of food
abstemiously
appliqué; embroider ornament
embroidery; ornament
soup of fresh fish cooked into a slightly thick
consistency with oil and a little water; hence
ọḍú ̣ tụọ
situation in which an arbitrator in a dispute
turns to assist one side in the dispute
be swept; be cleaned
sweep
sweep aside
broom
whistle
whistling; whistle
rage (of disease, famine)
raging (of disease or famine)
ardent; hot; fervent; fervid; passionate;
zealous; glowing; intense; torrid; very hot;
tropical
fever; malaria; sickness; nickname for smallpox; heat; hotness (perception or sensation of
it); hot weather; pungency of flavour; warmth
of feeling; anger
ardour; enthusiasm; fervour; zeal; heat of
mind
hot displeasure; rage
ardently; fervently; fervidly; passionately;
zealously; intensely; hotly
cause to heat up; warm up
shark and dogfish spp (‘slender, long-nosed
shard’; long-nosed shark’), incl. tiger shark
double teeth growing from the same root
shark-oil, from shark’s liver
take by force; plunder; pillage; loot
act of taking by force
loot; pillage; plunder
246
Ctenopoma
kingsleyae. =
enumetandị
order Squaliformes,
incl. Galeocerdo
cuvier
ọfọụ1
n.m.
f
ọfọụ2
n.
t
ọfọụ3
n.
tr
ọfọụḍuré
ọfọụḍuré
n.
n.
bo
bo
ó ̣fụrú ̣gba
ọgá1
ọgá2
n.
n.
n.
wp
to
ga
ọgá3
n.
pp
ọgá4
ọga
ọga ịsọnọ
ọgándi
ọgbá
ọgbákana
ọgbákiri
ọgbaní ̣
ó ̣gbọ
ó ̣gbọyaị
ọgbó ̣lọ
ọgbọlọ
ọgbọlú ̣gbọlụ
ọgbó ̣rụ
ó ̣gbụ
n.
n.m.
& a.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.pl.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
ọgbụdụ
n.
ó ̣gbụ kún
v.p.
ó ̣gị
ọgịẹí ̣
ọgịgá
ọgígáa
̣
n.
n.m.
n.
a.
ọgịọrị
ọgịzị
ọgó ̣
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
k
ọgọ-ára
ọgó ̣ḅọ
n.f.
n.m.f
k
k
i
i
cl
v
bs
bs
c
am
i
tr
d
he
moonfish, freshwater fish sp.; large specimen
of ẹpẹtẹ
tree sp., the fruits of which resemble those of
kola
carved wooden device in form of U, frilled
with shreds of immature leaves of oil palm
tree called ịmụnụmụnụ and decorated with
narrow length of white cloth impregnated
with charms, used as protective armour for the
bow of a war canoe
rear thwart in a war canoe
front three thwarts of a war canoe which are
extended outwards for the pullers to sit on,
and under which the U arms of the "ọfọụ" are
lashed
sling (for missiles)
adze; carpenter’s tool
pieces of shaped broken plate used for game;
the game itself
carpel or section of citrus fruit containing the
pistil cells called otóku
(wrestling) deadly grip; stranglehold
small biting red ant
small biting red ant sp.
cloth; organdie
bush cane ropes
special basket woven with cane rope
farm with plenty of ropes and tangles
rectangular farm basket with plank bottom
puke; retch; spew; vomit
vomit; gorge; vomited matter
small snails used as tops
nickname for frog
praying mantis
card; club
something resembling mud used in smearing
the hair on the heads of wives of high priests
during times of mourning
sludge; thick greasy mud (especially from
palm oil)
said of a woman when she has plastered her
hair during mourning
venereal disease; gonorrhea
small knife
pad for loads
pinched or squeezed in appearance (especially
of neck)
talk noisily
noisy talking
plenty; abundance
state of being as brother-in-law or sister-inlaw
sister-in-law
brother- or sister-in-law
247
Citharinus latus cf.
ẹpẹtẹ
(see ọbọlọ)
(see ọkịkaḅá)
(pl. ọgọ-óngu)
ọgọ-ówei
ọgọdọ
ọgọdó ̣mọ
ọgó ̣gọị
ọgọmó ̣
ọgọmó ̣ḅara
ọgó ̣nọ
ọgọnọḅuru [?]
ọgó ̣nọḅuru
ọgó ̣nọdụ
ọgó ̣nọ dụ sei
ọgó ̣nọdụsei
ọgó ̣nọkuḅuyaị
ọgó ̣nọkuḅuyaị mịẹ
ọgó ̣nọkuḅuyaịmịẹḅ
ọ
ọgó ̣nọ-ofoni
ọgó ̣nọwarị
ọgó ̣nọwei
ịwọ-ọgó ̣nọwei
ọgó ̣nọweiḅịḅị
ọgó ̣nọweiagbatụa
ọgó ̣nọweipáịn
ọgó ̣nọweifá na
paga na
ọgó ̣nọye
ọgụ
ọgú ̣gú ̣ụ
ọgú ̣gú ̣ụmọ
ọgụrụ
kurukuru-ọgụrụ
ó ̣ka1
ó ̣ka2
ọká1
.
n.m.
n.m.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
adv.
n.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.pl.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
k
dr
cr
t
t
thunder; lightning
small ante-chamber in old-time houses
short; deformed (of neck)
in a deformed manner
potassium iodide
potassium permanganate
bead used by royalty alone in olden days
tree sp. and fruit
ashes from plantain rind used as potash
substitute in cookery
carpentry
engage in carpentry work
hornbill sp.
ọká2
ọká kọn
ọkadịgọ
n.
v.p.
n.m.
ọkaíṇ
ọkaịn
ọkará
n.
n.
n.
ọkaráḅọ
et
ọkará kpọ
n.m.f
. & a.
v.p.
tree sp. and fruit;
roofing mats; thatches
Ghana; Accra; hair style for men; women’s
cloth style
Ghanaian; Accra person
ọkarákpọye
n.
dr
tie cloth round loins with another piece of
rope or cord
rope or cord used in tying cloth round loins
b
t
et
Dioscorea bulbifera
(Dioscoreaceae). lit.
‘up-yam’
breadfruit tree and fruit
north; up-river; skyward
talk nasally due to defect in nose
such nasal speech
hypocrisy; pretence; dissimulation
be hypocritical; dissimulate
hypocrite; pretender; dissembler
bird of the air
storey house; upstairs
moon; month It is divided as follows:
new moon
first quarter
second quarter; full moon
third quarter when moon is waning
fourth quarter until new moon is seen
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.p.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
brother-in-law
inner loincloth used as pants or tight drawers
troop; flock about after or to (something)
shout or talk boisterously
boisterous talk
spare; be frugal
sparingly
apex; top; up; sky; heaven
in heaven; heavenly; upstairs
aerial yam
248
(cf. egéle; ofoni1)
(pl. ọgó ̣nọyaị)
(same as ákaụn)
family Bucerotidae
(cf. amúsu1;
akanga1; apịapịa)
Garcinia kola
ọkaran’álu
ọkarásutu
n.
n.
cl
dr
ọkéké
̣ ẹ̣
a.
ọkéké
̣ ẹmọ
̣
ọkélé
ẹ̣
̣ ẹ̣ or ọkélẹké
̣
ọkịkaḅá
ọkịn-álala
adv.
a.
n.
n.m.
b
ḍụẹị-ọkịn-alala
n.m.
b
ọkịrí ̣
a.
v.i.
n.
ọkịrímọ
̣
n.m.f
.
adv.
sei-ọkịrí ̣
ó ̣kọ
ó ̣kọ sara
ọkó1̣
n.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
ọkó ̣ fị
ọkó ̣ye1
ọkó2
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
ọkịríkụmọ
̣
ọkó ̣bọ
ọkó ̣fịrị
ọkó ̣ye2
ọkó3̣
bf
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
n.
m
i
ọkọró ̣mọ
n.
n.
v.t.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
ọkpáịn
n.m.
f
ọkó ̣kọ
ḍarị-ọkọkọ
ọkọló ̣
ọkọlọkọpogí
ọkọríkọrị
̣
ọkó ̣rọ
Ghana print cloth
women’s dress style consisting of a lower
cloth, a blouse and a top cloth all of the same
cloth
curved like the interior of a circle; concave (of
face)
concavely
small; of little size; smallish
pad for loads (see ọgịgá)
woodland kingfisher; blue-breasted kingfisher
bird spp.; pigmy kingfisher, malachite
kingfisher
facetious; funny; jocular; humorous; waggish;
droll; flippant
jest; joke; jeer; speak or act in trifling manner;
banter
facetiousness; fun; jest; joke; jocularity;
humour; drollery; waggishness; flippancy;
pleasantry
wag; jester; droll; joker
Halcyon
senegalensis; H.
malimbica (cf.
ḍụẹị-ọkịanlalá;
ḍụẹị-ọkịn-alala;
ẹgbẹíntekeleb
̣
̣a)
Ispidina picta;
Corythornis cristata
facetiously; jokingly; jestingly; jocularly;
humorously; waggishly; drolly
joke with malice in it
curd vomited by child
vomit curd
bribe; pervert by gifts or other inducements
the action or judgment of
bribe; bribery
take or "eat" bribe
bribe
hire; employ (person) for wages; procure or
grant temporary use of (thing) for stipulated
payment
hireling; labourer
labour (for wages)
hire; rewards; wages
short but heavy rain that falls just before dry
ebb
foam; froth; lather; suds
scum from a boiling pot or fermenting wine
clean rope for basketwork
big bat which cries throughout the night
centipede which glows on being touched
shout; make loud cry or sound
shout; loud utterance
hoot; assail (person, etc.) with derisive shouts;
boo
fish sp.; characin sp.
249
family Chiroptera
order
& a.
ọkparan
ọkpọkó ̣kpọkọ
n.m.
n.m.
ọkpọló ̣kpọlọ
ọkpọró ̣
n.m.
v.t.
ọkpọró ̣ye
ọkpó ̣tọ
tịḅị-ọkpọtọ
ọkpọtó ̣
ọkpọtó ̣kpọtọ
ọkpọtụḅa
n.
n
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
ọkpó ̣tụụ
ọkụ ghọ ḅọgọ
ọkụghọḅọgọ
ọkụkú ̣
ọkú ̣kú ̣ụ
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
a.
ọkú ̣kú ̣ụmọ
ọkú ̣lọ1
arụ-ọkụlọ
arụ-ó ̣kụlọḅa
ọkú ̣lọ2
ọkụmá
ó ̣kụó ̣dụ
ọkụó ̣kụọ
ó ̣kụrụ
ó ̣kụrụbéke
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
abadị-ó ̣kụrụ
ọlalị
ọlalị fí ̣
ḅuru-ó ̣lalị
idu-ó ̣dalị
indi-ó ̣lalị
ịsẹmị-ọlalị
oḅoripẹlẹ-ọlalị
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ọlílị́ ị̣
ọlílị́ ịmọ
̣
ọlọ1
a.
adv.
v.i.
& t.
n.
ọkpó ̣tụụmọ
ọkpụrụbịá
ọkú ̣
ọkụ
ọlọ1
Characiformes. cf.
ikolokoló, ịságụ
f
b
bp
bp
bf
pp
f
first-born son
bubu, a freshwater catfish reputed to move
supinely;
talkative bird; hence, a great talker
drag; search bottom of river with grapnel or
drag
grapnel or drag
brain
brain matter
mucilage; phlegm
rotten fibre of plantain left on the stump
freshwater fish of cichlid perch species
d
dull; sluggish; depressed
lose force; dull
dullness
dully
one-gallon pot
Africcan buffalo; ‘bush-cow’
abut; border; have a common boundary with
boundary; land mark; border; margin; limit
encroach or intrude usurpingly (on boundary)
encroachment
masquerade type
protruding; curved like the exterior of a circle;
convex (of forehead)
convexly
bow of boat or canoe
bow; fore-end of boat
(see under arụ)
source
beating drum in general
bugle; trumpet
tree sp.
okra plant and fruit
rashes resembling small yaws often found on
small children
hibiscus plant found along sea shores
feast; festivity; festival; merriment; carnival
enjoy or celebrate a feast
yam festival
secular feast in honour of amatẹmẹsuo
‘fish’ festival
‘periwinkle’ festival
feast when a goat is slaughtered or sacrificed
for a deity or a departed ancestor
bald; hairless
baldly
cough; expel air from lungs
d
cough; act of coughing
m
ms
bo
mi
t
cr
d
h
tr
tr
tr
tr
tr
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Auchenoglanis
occientalis
family Cichlidae.
cf. adi, atán,
elekéti, ịtaḅalá
Syncerus caffer
kítịkí
̣ tị-ọlọ
̣
ọlọ2
ọlọgọlọ
ọló ̣kọ
ọló ̣kọ
ọlọkó ̣
ọlọlímọ
̣
ọló ̣lọ
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
v.i.
ọlọló ̣
v.t.
ọlụ
ọlú ̣lú ̣ụ
ó ̣ma
n.m.
a.
n.m.
ó ̣mbị
v.t.
ọmbịmó ̣
ó ̣mbịpulo
ó ̣mbịye
ó ̣mbịye-ó ̣mbịye
ó ̣mbịlárị
ọméndé
̣ ẹ̣
ọmí ̣
d
fp
m
f
whooping cough
vital organs of crustacean
African civet [cat]
retch
retching
disgorge; eject from throat
drag oneself forward with difficulty
loosen; become less tight and hence fall off;
look paralytically emaciated
clean up oil palm leaf or plantain stem for
fibre; clean the heads of lobsters and shrimps
in preparation for cooking; loosen; make less
tight
second-born son
small-mouthed
electric catfish
v.t.
n.
n.
a.
n.
a.
n.
h
rub; spread (ointment, powder, camwood,
dye, etc.) over the body
cause to rub over
pomade; ointment; unguent
camwood dye
of crimson colour; red
umbrella
(of nose) flat
itching weed; cow itch
ọmímị
̣
n.m.
tr
ọmịní ̣
ọmó ̣
ọmó ̣
ó ̣mọ ḅá
ó ̣mọḅá
pron.
v.i.
n. &
a.
v.p.
n.
mt
mt
ọmó ̣ noin
ọmó ̣noin
v.p.
n.
mt
mt
ó ̣mịteghá sériyeghá
ọmó ̣bụ
kala-ọmó ̣mbụ
opu-ọmó ̣mbụ
ọmó ̣ngọ
ọmó ̣rịmba
n.p.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
i
i
i
he
ọmó ̣rịmba tụá prí ̣
v.p.
ọmó ̣ụn
ọmó ̣ụn koro
n.
subj.
+ v.i.
k
mt
mt
fabled spirit which has a supposed adjustable
magic arm
second personal pronoun plural; you; ye
ebb; flow back; recede
ebb tide;
dawn while water is still ebbing
still ebbing
become night while water is still ebbing
period of tide when night falls while water is
still ebbing
nothing
housefly in general
sandfly; midge
blowfly; meatfly
mug; drinking vessel
pointing of hand at someone abusively; an
expression da ékị
̣ ḅálị said to an opponent
point hand abusively at someone and actually
utter da ékị
̣ ḅálị
appetite; dearth; famine; hunger
have famine; famine exists
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Viverra civetta
Malapterurus
electricus
<English umbrella
also recroded as
ó ̣mị; Mucuna
pruriens
cf. ọmó ̣ mindi
<English mug
ọmó ̣ụnkọríyo
̣
ó ̣mọyaí ̣
ọmụngụ
ọmụngụ-arú ̣
ọmụngụ-arụ-alaḅó ̣
subj.
+ v.t.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.m.
bo
bo
ọmụngụ-arụ-ekeré
n.
mi
ọmụngụkirí
ọmụngụ-ongú
ọmụngụḅaibuluḅá
ọna
n.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.
h
n.m.
f
ọná
n.m.
f
ọnana
ọnanakokoḅó ̣
n.m.
n.m.
da
ọnanatọgú ̣
ọndé ̣
ọngbọ
ọngbọ
ó ̣nghaá
ọngọ
ọngọlí1̣
n.m.
num.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
da
ọngọlịmó ̣
ọngọlí2̣
ọngọrí ̣
ọngọrí ̣
ó ̣nị
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
ó ̣nị dụ
ọní ̣
ọnínịị
̣
ọnọ
ọnụngó ̣
ímburu-ó ̣nụngọ
v.p.
v.t.
a.
n.m.
n.
n.
yakayaka-ó ̣nụngó ̣
ọnụnú ̣
ḅara-ó ̣nụnụ
ḅịḅị-ọnụnụ
ḅụọ-ọnụnụ
ọnyéndẹẹ
̣
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
n.
ọmó ̣ụn kọrị
ọnyéndẹẹmọ
̣
ọnyényẹẹ
̣
ọnyị
feel hunger; be hungry
ms
fr
cl
cl
mt
mt
mt
mi
mi
mi
mi
hungry, peckish
masquerade type
battle; war
battleship; warship; war canoe
war canoe chief; a chief who has amassed
wealth to reach the status of manning a war
canoe (30 slaves and ammunition)
wooden drums used in a war canoe; the style
of beating them
captivity
soldiers
fern; bracken
geelbeck croaker (‘small-mouth or weakfish’)
Atractoscion
aequidens
meagre (‘meagre drum’; ‘croaker or large- Argyrosomus regius
mouth’; ‘sea croaker)
sheep
hence ọnana oḅorí
shepherd
(pl.
ọnanakok’ongú)
lamb; yearling
four hundred, used as unit of counting
importune; solicit pressingly; make appeals to
solicitation
no, expressing an emphatic negative
channel; sound; strait
clean up or scoop completely (with hand,
spoon, etc.) any semi-solid matter
clean up to one side
succulent coconut fruit
snore
snore; snoring
cloth canopy over an arena for dancing or
meeting
spread cloth as canopy over an arena
flay; strip off skin or hide
very small; tiny
black cloth used for mourning
wave; breaker
very high wave; heavy ocean wave breaking
on coast
small rough waves
harmonium; harmonica; organ in general
accordion
mouth-organ
pedal organ
simper; smirk
simperingly
same as preceding
blacksmith’s charcoal
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ó ̣ọ
ọpagịpagí ̣
ọpagịpagílụgú
̣
̣
ọpaịn
excl.
n.
n.
n.
ọpalí ̣
ọpịán1
ọpịán tụa
ọpịán2
ọpịapịá
ọpịna
n.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
ó ̣pịnánga
ọpịndá
ọpịndágbenḅịté ̣
ọpínị
̣
ọpịní ̣
ọpịpaịn
n.
n.
a.
n.m.
v.i.
v.t.
n.m.
ọpịpí ̣
ọpịrịsíkị
̣
ọpó ̣
ọpó ̣tugu
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
ọpó ̣ịn
ọpó ̣lụ
ọpọtọkọ, ọpọtọ
ọpó ̣lụḅayaị
ọpó ̣rịmó ̣pọ
ọpụ
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
ọpú ̣n
ọpú ̣ntụọfịaí ̣
ọpụrú1̣
ọpụrú2
ọpụrụ-áka
ḅio-ó ̣pụrụ
ọpụrú3
ọra
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
n.
pron.
ọrí ̣
n.
bp
ọríyọ
̣
ọrọ
ọrọdọ
ọrọmú ̣
excl.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
la
i
ọrọmú ̣ sou
ọrọrọḅilégha
v.p.
n.m.
b
ọró ̣sị
n.
cr
fr
fr
g
he
ms
bf
bp
bp
f
expressing confused emotion
spice plant and its fruit
mantled type of oil palm fruit
reed; the Indian bamboo,
special knife used for tapping palm wine
lot (for finding lost things)
draw or cast lots
masquerade type
same as apịapịá
skin; hide; integument; bark; rind; tan; husk;
outer cover
wax in the ear; cerumen
shoulder
scapular
sash
become bare of skin or bark
peel; rind; bark; strip; excoriate
fish sp.; minnow sp., especially one in salt
water
notorious thief
half gallon pot
corner of room
back of fire place;
r
c
female of tortoise
crayfish
mud
legendary, exceptionally tall human being
fp
air bladder of sea-catfish; sound
belly; lower front of body; flank; fleshy part
of front of body between ribs and hip
seethe food with the rind
such seethed food
gather up with the hand
section of canoe
built-up sides of canoe; coaming
bulk-head; inner part of ọpụrú ̣
back length of an animal from shoulder to hip
your (plural)
bo
bo
bo
ap
pubic hair
serve you right!
creeklet; rill; rivulet; runnel
biting fly;
vomiting feeling which tends to rise from the
root of the navel
feel such vomiting feeling
bird sp. with long thin legs found on sudd
grasses; African jacana; common lily trotter
rice
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Oxytenanthera
abyssinia
family Cyprinidae
cf. ḅụrọtongu;
edenítongu
second person
plural possessive
pronoun;
cf. obiri-ítuka,
pẹgẹyaí ̣
Chrysops spp.
Actophilornis
africanus
Oryza sativa
(Gramineae) <
Portuguese arroz
ọrú ̣
ọrụḅá
n.
n.m.
ọrú ̣rụụ
ọrú ̣rụụmọ
ọsá
ọsá sụọ
ó ̣saịn(ḅẹlẹ)
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
ọsẹkẹ
ọséṇ
éḅẹn’ọsẹn
̣
ọsịḅá
ọsígọ
̣
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ọsịkaịn
n.m.
f
ọsịkasịká
ọsịkasịkaídu
n.
n.m.
mi
f
ọsímaịn
̣
n.
t
ọsịma
ọsịmakọn
ọsịmakọnḅó ̣
ọsịmamọmbọ
ọsịsá1
ọsịsá2
ọsó1̣
ọsó2̣
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
f
a
cl
f
tr
ọsọḅú ̣
ọsọḅú ̣
n.
v.i.
ọsọíṇ 1
v.t.
ọsọíṇ 1
namaọsọịnḅó ̣
ọsọíṇ 2
n.
n.m.
v.t.
ọsọíṇ 2
ama-ọsọịn
kụmọ-ọsọịnḅó ̣
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.f.
ọsọínsọịnḅá
̣
ọsọkịsọkí ̣
ọsọmụ
ọsọmụ mọndị
ọsọmụmọndịḅó ̣
ọsụkụ
n.m.
n.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.
fg
fp
p
p
p
tr
f
order; class; kind; sort
woven basket-work open at both ends, used
for fishing; coop
mute; silent
mutely; silently
very tall, but fruitless, oil palm tree;
become ọsá
pot of medicine kept in special place for
healing
very small; very few (of bunch, contents, etc.)
soap (in general)
native black soap
spine of fish; hard part in fin of fish; awn
holes in wood caused by teredo or shipworm
or stemborers
fish sp.; halfbeak spp., flat garfish
musical instrument; a rattle
very small and thin fish resembling ọsịkaịn,
halfbeak spp.
tree sp., the wood of which is very durable in
water;
in
blacksmithery
blacksmith
unidentified scaly fish described as very tasty
bridge; jetty; landing pier; mole
cloth in strips
fish in a "nembe" dam
keep preliminary lyke or waking before actual
night of ceremonies;
falsehood; alie; fib; false statement
lie; speak falsely; tell lie; fib; hence ọsọḅụ
gba
hunt; chase or pursue wild animals or game
for food or sport;
hunting; pursuit of game
hunter
spy; explore secretly; keep secret watch (on
movement of person)
spying
espionage; practice of using spies or spying
spy
god responsible for ferrying spirits to the
underworld
fish sp.
errand; message
go on errand
messenger; forerunner; harbinger; precursor;
one who carries a message
same as ituku lụgụ
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(also ọríḅa)
̣
e.g. ọsá lụgụ
(also ó ̣ḅẹn’ọsẹn)
family
Hemiramphidae
Hemiramphidae sp.
also égele-ákaụn
hence ḍụẹị ọsó ̣
hence nama ọsọịn
yọ ékị
̣ ọsú ̣kụ dọgú ̣
ọta
v.p.
n.
fg
ọtị
n.m.
b
frequent a place
weir; enclosure of stakes set in a stream as
trap for fish
sunbird sp., black in colour
ọtịkọkó ̣
ọtíọ̣
n.
n.
f
chikoko mud
small type of sea-catfish called sịngí ̣
ọtó ̣bịrị
ó ̣tọló ̣
n.m.
n.
sh
mindi-ó ̣tọlọ
n.m.
sh
ọtọlọtọlọḅá
ọtó ̣ndịaḅá
ọtó ̣ngbọlọ(ḅá)
n.m.
n.m.
n.
i
i
ọtú ̣ma
n.
a.
small 1/4-gallon pot
shrub sp. yielding valuable wood for fish-rods
and small fruits for thickening soup
shrub species found in more swampy
conditions
non-biting small insect resembling sandfly
firefly; glow-worm
very minute particle of dewdrop; scintilla;
spark; atom; tittle; whit
mud in general
made of earth or clay; fictile;
ọtú ̣ma-ọtú ̣ma
ọtịkọkó ̣-ọtụmá
pérẹn’ó
̣
̣tụma
ọtụmụ1
ọtụmụ2
ọtụrú ̣
ó ̣vọ
ó ̣vọ fị
ó ̣vọ iri
ó ̣vọ kọrị
elemu-ó ̣vọ
ịwọ-ó ̣vọ
ó ̣wọmá
a.
n.
n.
n.
cr
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
p.n.
p.n.
n.pl.p p
ers.
muddy
chikoko mud
yellow clay
aerial yam
double navel
great number
vow; covenant; testament
make a covenant; vow
go against a covenant
be affected by a vow
Old Testament
N ew Testament
children
kalaó ̣wọmayaí ̣
ọwọrọdọ-álagba
ó ̣wọrọwó ̣só ̣
ọyaya
ọyéḅẹ
̣
n.pl.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
n.m.
n.
v.p.
a.
chickenpox; measles
gun; cap-gun; dane-gun
brush-tailed porcupine
moron; degenerate brute; fool; buffoon
ó ̣yị
ọyọ
ọzarị
ọzarị koro
ọzarịkoroghá
d
m
b
p
cl
char; burn to charcoal
native cloth in strips (perhaps from Oyọ)
rust
rust; become rusty
rustless
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family
N ectariniidae (cf.
ịmbị-akásiko;
ịmbị-akásọgị;
ịsẹrẹ);
Arius sp. cf.
gbengu, nẹgú ̣,
nẹngú ̣
e.g. ọtú ̣ma ḅẹlé ̣
‘clay pot’
Dioscorea bulbifera
(plural to tó ̣gụ) e.g.
ó ̣wọmá kalaị ‘few
children’ (but
loosely used as
‘small children’);
kala ó ̣wọmá ‘small
children’
Atherurus africanus
(cf. wáya; wó ̣ya)
ọzarị-ọzarí ̣
ọzarị pẹlé ̣
ó ̣zọló ̣lị1
a.
v.p.
n.
rusty
corrode
children’s game; hopping on one foot and
swinging the other to and fro
small fry of fish, especially those of mullet
ga
ó ̣zọló ̣lị2
n.
f
ó ̣zọnízọbịá
̣
ọzú ̣gụụ
n.
a.
cloth resembling real india
tight; deformed; misshaped (of net, garment,
etc.)
must; be obliged to (do)
pá2
pá3
v.aux
.
v.i.
adv.
paán
v.i.
paán
n.
e.g. family
Mugilidae cf.
ịdẹgé,̣ ịyagụ
P.
pá1… nyụ
paán
paán
egé pan
n.
v.p.
pága
v.i.
paga
v.i.
paga
pagamó1̣
n.
v.t.
pagáya
v.t.
pagáya
n.
paga
pagámọ
pagamó2̣
v.t.
v.t.
paga
paga
paga
n.
paga
paga ḅo
n.
v.p.
paga gbáan
fụrú ̣ paga
pu paga
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
dare; venture to; have the courage to; ought
still; even to this present time; just;
A. crow; utter loud cry of cock; bleat; make
sheep’s, goat’s, or calf’s cry; low; moo; utter
cry of cow; hoot; utter cry of owl
crow; cry of cock; bleat; cry of sheep, goat or
calf; low; moo, cry of cow; hoot
B. boo; hoot; make sound of disapproval or
contempt at a speaker or an announcement
boo(ing); hoot(ing)
encourage by shouting (especially in case or
on happy occasions)
be manifest; present oneself formally or
publicly; come out
A. go out; start; depart; journey; travel;
proceed; move
departure; going away; starting
acquit; discharge; divorce; send out; dissolve
(marriage)
absolve from marriage; divorce from one
another
dissolution or undoing (of marriage);
divorcement
B. happen; come to pass; come about
happen to; betide; appear to
cause; effect; bring out or about; produce;
start; develop
C. be or become visible; appear; be published
appearance
D. grow; develop; increase in size or height;
be produced; be found in some place; wax
growth; development; germination
come forth from; issue, appear, originate,
from
grow over; be covered with some growth
smell out; smack of (something)
germinate; sprout; spring up; rise (of moon)
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e.g. á pá munyú ̣ ‘I
must go’
e.g. pá timí ḍigíi
‘just wait and see’
paga
a.
E. clean; free from dirt; unsoiled; chaste;
washed out; pure; undefiled
unclean; impure; unchaste; soiled; defiled
be redeemed or bailed
answer; reply to
answer; reply
bail; redeem
redeemer
pagaghá
págara
pagará1
pagaráye1
pagará2
pagaráḅọ
pagaráye2
pagara1
a.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
pagara ḅịté ̣
pagarapagará
págarapágara
págarapágaramọ
pagara pú
imbipagara
kurupagará
pulópagara
págị1
págị1
págị2
n.m.
a.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
pagị1
pagịye
pagị2
v.t.
n.
v.t.
paị
paị
páịn
v.i.
n.
v.i.
páịngha
paịnmó ̣
paíṇ
paká
a.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
palágị
palágịmọ
palalá, pálaláa
pálaláamọ
pálalóo
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
stagger; totter; walk unsteadily
staggeringly
limply
pálalóomọ
pálị
adv.
a.
pálị
pálị
v.i.
n.
limply
tight; compact; closely fitting; firmly put
together
become tight
tightness
cl
redemption
sheet; broad more or less flat piece of some
thin material (as of iron, lead, glass, paper,
etc.); shred; strip; torn or broken piece (of
crockery, etc.); side (of person, animal,
object); part; half of something; fillet
cloth woven in strips
sheet by sheet; piece by piece
not fluent; half and half (of language)
not fluently
break or saw into plank; fillet (fish)
part (usually 1/3) of a broken head of coconut
sheet or piece of sawn timber plank
half-cask of oil
be pledged; pledge one’s self
state of being pledged
take more than necessary (of food, drink);
cloy, glut, satiate, oneself with (food, drink,
etc.)
pawn; impawn; pledge; put in pawn or pledge
pawn; pledge
give more than necessary (of food or drink);
cloy, glut, sate, satiate (with food, drink or
pleasure)
be not true
lie; lying
be broken; dwindle; wane (as moon); shrink
(by breaking)
unfailing; unwaning
fail (a promise)
break piece off
tree sp. yielding very light wood and fibre
bark
257
Clappertonia
ficifolia (Willd.)
Decne. (Tiliaceae)
(cf. next word)
(cf. preceding
word)
pálịmọ
palí ̣
adv.
v.t.
tightly fitting
A. support; tighten so as to keep from falling;
give strength to;
palímọ
̣ 1
v.i.
palímo
̣ 2
palímọ
̣ sụọ
palịmó ̣
n.
v.p.
v.t.
choke; become unable to breathe properly
owing to stodginess of stomach
such condition of being choked
force entry into a tight or compact place
tighten; hamper; obstruct space with material
obstacles
B. follow; come after in order; support;
second; land assistance
supporter
palí ̣
palíḅọ
̣
palịmó2̣
pambá1
pambaimburúsụọgha
pambawei
pambá2
n.m.f
.
v.t.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
n.
pamba
pamba
pambamó ̣
pámbara
pambará
panáma
pangá
ninípanga
pánị
pápa
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
adv.
papaḅará
papaḅarámọ
papaḅió
papaḅió
a.
adv.
n.
a.
papaḅịḅí ̣
pápamọ
pápapaga
pápapagayé
papatúgu
papatúgu
papayé
pápa2
a.
adv.
a.
n.
a.
n.
n.
adv.
papa
papalá
pápaláa
pápaláamọ
páraráa
n.m.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
b
f
dr
go
bp
he
k
follow closely; chase
wing; eaves (of house)
large stork, so called because of its large
wings
fish spp. with broad flat body; skates and rays
leaf (of book or tobacco), hence ḍiripamba;
single thickness of folded paper which is
equal to two pages in a book
become hot and dry; thirst; parch
feeling of hotness
make hot and dry; make thirst; parch
slightly burn at bottom of soup pot (of soup)
slightly burnt scent in soup
panama hat
calabash drinking cup
wing of nostril
pan
for nothing; free; in vain; unsuccessfully;
merely; simply; barely; just
empty-handed
empty-handed
emptiness; futility; vanity; fruitlessness
empty; containing nothing; devoid of
furniture or inmates; without loads; vain;
addled; futile; fruitless
without meat or fish; plain (of food)
freely
casual; accidental; happening by chance
accident; chance happening
bare; naked; nude; unclothed; uncovered
nakedness; nudity
nonsense; meaningless words
even (in negative context);
child’s name for father
flat
flat
flatly
ungainly; gawky
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e.g. tịnmí tugumí
̣
̣
palíị̣ ‘fix the stick
firmly!’
(pl. palị-óngu)
family Ciconiidae
order Rajiformes
<English
<English
e.g. á bene pápa
ḍigí ka ḍigíghá ‘I
never even looked’
patapatámọ
páụn
pée
pée
pée
péemọ
pégele
adv.
v.i.
a.
v.t.
v.t.
& i.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
pégele
pegelé
pegelé ḍigí
pegelemó ̣
n.
v.t.
v.p.
adv.
pegelemó ̣ kaú ̣n
pekée
pekéemọ
pekelée
pekelée
pekeléemọ
pekelépekele,
pekélepekéle
pekelépekele,
pekélepekéle
pekelépekelemọ
pékepéke
pékepékemọ
pékuláa
pékuláamọ
mịé ̣ pékuláamọ
pékunáa
pékunáamọ
pelelée
peleléemọ
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
with a spatter
pound sterling
pale; pallid; wan; sallow; anaemic
grow or become pale, sallow
pallor; paleness
dance; masquerade dance in which dancer
whirls round and round
such a masquerade dance
turn round for examination
examine a thing round and round
twistingly; hence pegelemó ̣ gbaá ‘tell
(something) in roundabout manner’
brandish (as sword)
dart; take off; spring from
with a spring or dart
dodge; shuffle
dodging; shuffle; shuffling
with a dodge
dodgy; fickle; inconstant; changeable
v.i.
dodge; move quickly round
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.p.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
with a dodge
falter; stagger
falteringly
broad and wide
broadly
make broad; broaden
broad or wide
broadly
dart; start rapidly in some direction; dodge
with a dart
páraráamọ
párị
párịpárị
parí ̣
pásisei
pásisei
pásụ
pasụ
pátakáa
pátakáamọ
patákapatáka,
patakapataká
patákapatákamọ
patákipatáki
patákipatákimọ
pátakíi
patapatá
in an ungainly manner
be spun
ruffled; curly (of hair); kinky
spin
make devout supplication; beseech, pray,
entreat, earnestly
earnest prayer; entreaty
be dented
dent
patter
with a patter
patter
with a patter
heavy patter
with a heavy patter
broad and heavy
spatter; splash
dc
ms
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<English
pelélepeléle,
pelelépelele
pelélepeléle,
pelelépelele
pelemúpelemu
pelemúu
pélia
a.
dodgy
v.i.
dartle; keep on darting
v.i.
v.i.
n.m.
dartle
start rapidly in some direction; dart dodge
fish sp.; [African horse mackerel?]; Senegal
jack; pompano sp.
péligue
pembú
ḅéke-imbípembu
kọrọpembu
lụgú ̣pembu
pende
pendemọ1
pendemọ2
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
péndu
péndu
v.i.
n.
péndumọ
pendú
pénge
pénge
péngemọ
pengé
péngenée
péngenéemọ
pengenépengene
pengenépengenemọ
pénipéni
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
pénipénimọ
pénwáa
pénwáamọ
pépeláa
pépeláamọ
pepelámọ
pepesáa
pepesáamọ1
pepesáamọ2
pereperé
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
n.
pereperémọ
pereré
pererémọ
pereréperere or
peréreperére
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
f
tp
tp
tp
tp
hanky-panky; underhand dealing
frond of palms
coconut frond
raffia palm frond
oil palm frond
(of body) settle; come to rest
composedly
compose; arrange in a specified manner;
tranquilise
feel tired because of hard work
aching tiredness; the feeling which comes as a
result of too much hard work
with aching tiredness
tire; cause to be tired
oblique; in a sideways direction
be bent or leaning
obliquely
cause to bend or lean
light; of little weight; of small specific gravity
lightly
light; of little weight
lightly
gasp; strain for air or breath, with open
mouth, as in drowning or in exhaustion
gasp; straining for air or breath
gaspingly
broad; wide; broad-brimmed
broadly; in a broad-brimmed style
broad; wide and flat
broadly; widely
broaden; widen
broad; wide and flat
broadly; widely
broaden; widen
smart; brisk; lively
smartness; word used at time of purification
by priest or priestess, urging that the person
should be brisk and smart
smartly; briskly
dart; take off
dart
with a dart
falter; stagger
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Caranx senegallus.
family
Carangidae. cf.
mọrọn, ịkụtú ̣kụtụ
pererépereremọ
peri
adv.
n.
peri-atịḅị
peri ḅá
n.pl.
v.p.
perinamá
n.m.
peri pẹlé ̣
v.p.
peripẹlé ̣
perígbo
péselée
n.
n.m.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.pl.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
& i.
péseléemọ
petáa
petáamọ
petapetá
petapetámọ
pétekáa
pétekáamọ
petekapeteká
petekapetekámọ
pewáa
pewáamọ
péẹn
̣
péẹnmọ
̣
pẹgẹ
pẹgẹ-ikú
pẹgẹtugú
pẹgẹyaí ̣
pégị
̣
pẹgí ̣
péị̣
pẹí1̣
pẹí2̣
péịpé
̣ ị̣
a.
tr
tr
ms
falteringly
human sacrifice given in rotation by members
of a society or league of chiefs; head of
enemy taken at war; a big and ferocious game
animal killed
skulls of sacrificed victims kept as trophies
said of a child when it cuts its milk-teeth, or
of an eaglet when it develops white feathers
from dull grey ones; or of a person who has
performed a difficult task
any of the following animals when killed is
regarded as perinamá:-
ḅịlá ‘elephant’; ọkú ̣
‘bush-cow’;
kụró ̣nama
‘leopard’; tele
‘gorilla’; émein
‘manatee’ or
‘seacow’; ḅólia
‘dolphin’
behead a victim at war or perform human
sacrifice; take scalp
taking of scalp; beheading of a victim at war
masquerade type
pale; pallid; sallow; wan
grow pale; become pale
pallor; paleness
patter; spatter
with a patter or spatter
patter (in succession)
with a continuous patter
wide or broad (of foot)
broadly; widely
patter (as footsteps of some animal on soft
soil); spatter with tread
with a patter
patter; spatter
i
bp
with a patter
show first flow (of tide)
first flow of tide
slightly
pelvis; pubic region
crab-louse
pelvic region
pubic hairs
be prised up
prise up, open, by leverage
be eaten
eat (fish or meat only)
touch or be touched by a draughtsman or
some stick in a game of igboun and other
games
perforated; pitted
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cf. obiri-ítuka, ọrí ̣
pékụpé
kụmọ
̣
̣
pélẹ
̣ 1
adv.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n. &
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
pélẹ
̣ koro
pélẹ
̣ 2
pélẹḅa
̣
v.i.
n.
n.
pẹlẹ1
v.t.
pẹlẹghaḅoú
n.
la
pẹlẹghatọngó ̣
pẹlẹ koromó ̣
pẹlẹ sín
peri pẹlé ̣
peripẹlé ̣
tọngó ̣ pẹlẹ
tọngó ̣pẹlẹ
tọngó ̣pẹlẹgha
tọngó ̣pẹlẹgha2
pẹlẹ2
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
bp
pẹlẹ3
n.
v.t.
pẹlémọ
̣
pẹlẹmó ̣
v.i.
v.t.
farịyaị pẹlé ̣
numo pẹlẹ4
pẹlẹ4
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
pẹlẹ irí
ḅọrẹ pẹlé ̣
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹḅó ̣
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹ-ené
ḅẹrẹpẹlẹyé
pẹlẹ5
v.p.
v.p.
n.m.
n.
n.
v.t.
pélẹkoro
̣
pẹlẹkoro
n.
n.
péịpé
̣ ịmọ
̣
pẹịpẹínẹgị
̣
pẹịpẹínẹngị
̣
pékẹlé
ẹ
̣
̣
pékẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
pẹkẹlépẹkẹlẹ
̣
pẹkẹlépẹkẹlẹmọ
̣
pẹkẹpẹké ̣
pẹkẹpẹkémọ
̣
pékụpé
kụ
̣
̣
in a perforated way
whale
whale
slim
slimly
slim
slimly
thin; lean
thinly
whisper
mt
i
mc
mc
cr
whisperingly
be cut, felled, mowed, ceased, stopped, ended,
decided, settled, concluded, adjudged
be cut down
neap-tide
period of tide just following a spring when,
although the tide will be flowing, the level or
height of water continues to decrease daily
cut; amputate; fell; mow; chop; hew; hack;
notch
virgin forest which has not been farmed for
over forty years and more; jungle
uncircumcised penis
cut down
cut away or off
take scalp
taking of scalp
circumcise
circumcision
uncircumcision
centipede
chip; trip up; cause to stumble by entangling
or suddenly arresting the feet;
wrestling-trick; chip
cease; end; stop; desist; bring or come to an
end
be screened; be stranded
intercept; sheet out; screen; dam; interrupt;
prevent passage
stop drumming
cease or cause to stop singing
conclude; decide; adjudicate; determine;
judge; settle; adjudge
misjudge
decide a case
judge
judgement day
judgment
drum or sing an accompaniment;
banana cultivar
corridor
262
order Cetacea
order Cetacea
e.g. ó a ghọ ḅụọmá
pẹlé ̣ ‘he tripped her
up’
cf. inikí pẹlẹ or alili
pẹlẹ; numo pẹlé ̣
pẹlẹkoroḅụgó ̣
pẹmbụ
n.
n.m.
pénị
̣ 1
pénị
̣ 2
pẹní ̣
pẹpẹ
pépẹlé
ẹ̣
̣
pépẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
pẹré ̣
pẹré ̣
pẹré ̣
n.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
n.m.
pẹréḅọ
̣
pẹrẹmó ̣
pẹrẹnịná
pérẹn’ó
̣
̣tụma
pẹrẹsaní ̣
n.m.f
.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
pérẹḅú
̣
̣ụ
pérẹḅú
̣
̣ụmọ
pérẹpé
rẹ
̣
̣
pérẹpé
rẹ
̣
̣
pérẹpé
rẹmọ
̣
̣
pétẹké
ẹ̣
̣
pétẹké
ẹmọ
̣
̣
pẹtẹpẹté ̣
pétẹré
̣ ẹ̣
píga
pigá
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
pigákiri
n.
pọgó ̣ piga
v.p.
pigi
v.t.
pigi
n.
pigíya
v.i.
& n.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
pẹrékụmó
̣
̣
odú pigi
odúpigi
pígiri
pígiri
pígiri-ẹfẹrụma
pígirimindi
pígiri sụọ
pigirí
f
door in a corridor
fish sp.; razorfish
penny (coin) (archaic)
be prised up
open with force; prise; open (eyes) wide
thin; lean
flat
flatly
rich; wealthy; having riches
richness;
king (Njọ origin, but retained in N embe
especially for king in games of draughts and
cards)
rich or wealthy person
Xyrichthys sp. cf.
epelépele
<English
rich person; lord; lady
bf
cr
bo
enrich; make rich
semen
yellow clay
sweet pepper plant and fruit resembling
alligator pepper
low; not high (of house)
in a low way
loquacious; chattering
loquaciousness
loquaciously
low; not high (of seat)
low
tiny; very small
tiny; very small
be moored or pinned or transfixed
berth; moor (canoe) in suitable place; pin,
transfix with stick
berth; a ship’s place at wharf; sleeping place
of a boat
choke; stop breath temporarily by blocking
with food or water; choke down
deny; disown; recant; abjure; abnegate;
renounce; contradict
denial; abnegation; abjuration; recantation;
renunciation; contradiction
bet; wager; debate; (make) competition;
dispute
deny oneself
self-denial; self-abnegation
go in spiral or circle; revolve; whirl; swirl
swirl; eddying motion (of water, air, etc.)
whirlwind
whirlpool
force entrance
agitate or turn round something with spoon or
hand; churn; stir; gyrate
263
or pigáyọ
píli
pílorú
pin
pinmó ̣
pinyó ̣
pindá
pindamó ̣
píni
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.t.
n.
pínió ̣nị
pinóngo
pinóngomọ
pinongomó ̣
piolí
piolímọ
piopió
piopió
piopiómọ
pirí
pirítugu
n.m.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
n.
n.
piríḅio
piríḅọ
pirí de
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
piríde
n.
seipirí
n.
pirínti
pisí
pisímọ
pisimó ̣
píti
n.m.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
pití
pitímọ
pítikíi
v.t.
v.t.
a.
la
pill
lead (metal)
cicatrize
cicatrize
cicatrice or cicatrix; scar
fibre from raffia fronds used for weaving mat
force; threaten
pin; thin piece of brass or iron wire for
fastening things
inferior cloth used for bathing
choke; gasp or strain for air or breath
gaspingly
choke; suffocate
prick; make a thrust into
sharply (of piercing)
pointed; sharp
pointedness
pointedly
bush; forest
spot on which goddess of forest is supposed to
be resident
wilderness
bushman
drive game; hunt; chase, scour (district) in
pursuit of game
battue; driving of game by beaters to a station;
scouring a district in pursuit of game
bush for burial purposes
pitikípitikimọ
pí ̣
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
print cloth
get wet; be drenched
wetness; condition of being wet
in a wet or drenched condition
drench; wet all over; steep; soak; make wet
be fixed on pointed thing; be fixed by point
into
pin; prick; stick; fix; infix
prick; pinch
damp, moist, slightly wet (usually of food or
mud)
be damp
damply
damp (of food only)
be damp
damply
the other;
píaị̣
píalí
̣ ị̣
píalí
̣ ịmọ
̣
pịgịpịgí ̣
pịgịpịgímọ
̣
n.pl.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
the others
lanky
in a lean manner
serried; without gaps
in a serried way
pítikíimọ
pitikípitiki
cl
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<English
literally; "bad
bush";
<English
or píyaị
̣ e.g. pí ̣
yemị ‘the other
thing’
pịmụpịmú ̣
pịmú ̣pịmú ̣ụ
pịmú ̣pịmú ̣ụmọ
pịmú ̣ụ
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
pịmú ̣ụmọ
pịná
pịná
pịná
pịnáḅou
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
n.m.
pịnáḅọ
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
píịịn
̣
píịịnmọ
̣
píịn
̣
píịnmọ
̣
píkị
̣
pịkí1̣
pịkí2̣
pịkịríị̣
pịkịríịmọ
̣
pịkịrípịkịrị
̣
pịnamó ̣
fụlọ pịnamó ̣
pịnapịná
pịndí ̣
pịndịmó ̣
pịnịngí ̣
pịnịngímọ
̣
pịníngịpịní
ngị
̣
̣
pịníngịpịní
ngịmọ
̣
̣
píọgí
̣ ị̣
píọgí
̣ ịmọ
̣
pịọlí ̣
pịọlímọ
̣
pịó ̣nị
pịọpịó ̣mọ
pịrí ọ r prí ̣
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
prí k
̣ ọrí ̣
príkọrí
̣ ye
̣
v.p.
n.
pịọpịó ̣
co
co
co
b
faint; dim; glimmering; gleaming
glimmer; gleam
faintly; dimly
sound lightly like fart
faintly (of sound)
be wound; turn (itself)
winding; act of winding or of turning on a tap
wind (clock); coil; turn on a tap
dance a certain step in otoḅá play
dancing step in otoḅá play
turn about or round smartly
smartly (of turn)
rotate; revolve
rotating; revolving; rotation; revolution
dartle
unsteady
unsteadily
dart; start rapidly; dart suddenly (as birds,
bees, missile) in some direction
smartly; suddenly
white; whitish
become white, ripe; redden
white; whiteness
little egret = lesser white heron
et
white person
co
make white; whiten
redden soup with oil or palm fruit
white; whitish
white; whiteness
fly off (as spark, seed, etc.)
cause to fly off
soft; cosy
softly; cosily
soft; not rough or coarse; quilted; snug
softly; cosily
crowded; overcrowded
in a crowded way
prick
sharply (of piercing)
elude; escape adroitly from difficulty,
person’s grip or observation; hence pịó ̣nị
ḅọgọ; slip our of reach, hence pịó ̣nị paga
pointed; sharp
acuity; sharpness; acuteness
pointedly; sharply
give; endow; bestow; bequeath; confer (thing)
upon (person); grant (favour); accord
(affection); deliver; hand over; proffer
pledge; pawn; mortgage
security
dc
dc
co
co
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Egretta garzetta (cf.
kịánkururu;
kurukuruḅou;
ogbokó)
pịrịríịmọ
̣
písẹ
̣
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
pịsẹ
n.
v.t.
pịrịríị̣
pịtịḅú ̣ụmọ
pịtịḅú ̣ụpịtịḅú ̣ụ
pịtịḅú ̣ụpịtịḅú ̣ụmọ
pịtịpịtí ̣
pịtịpịtímọ
̣
pó
pogí1
v.t.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
fie ḅịḅị pogí
v.p.
fieḅịḅịpogí
a.
fieḅịḅịpogí
n.
pogí2
orupogí
ọkọlọkọpogí
pógo1
pógo
pogó1
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
pogó2
pogó3
pogóye
v.t.
v.t.
n.
pógolo
pogoló
pogolomó ̣
pogu1
pogumó ̣
pogu2
pogu fịná
pólo or poló
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
pịsẹmó ̣
pịsịlí ̣
píta
̣ 1
píta
̣ 2
pịtá
pịtịḅú ̣ụ
polómọ
start; dart smartly
start; swift dart
with a sudden start
be separated or scraped; scratch or claw
oneself
spell of scratching oneself
remove or separate palm fruits from spikelet;
scratch or scrape with nails to relieve itching;
claw gently
sow or germinate seed in the nursery stage
pistol
bent; inclined; twisted
be trapped or entrapped
trap; entrap
flicker; dart; flash
m
m
m
flickeringly; with a dart
flicker; flash and die away by turns
flickeringly
remote; secluded; out-of-the-way
remotely
shoot out (of periwinkle when roasting)
A. hearken; listen to; give ear to; hear person
speaking with attention; make effort to hear
something
obey; perform bidding of; heed advice;
execute (command)
obedient; submissive to or complying with
superior’s will; dutiful
obedience; submission to rule
B. humiliate by being silent when called
bat spp.
small bat sp.
big bat which cries throughout the night
be pulled; carved, winkled out
be marked (especially eye) with chalk
pull out; carve out; winkle out; spot or single
out
spot; mark (especially eye) with chalk
patch; repair with patches
patch; piece of cloth or metal put on to mend
hold or rent
be pierced; have holes
make hold in; pierce side of
make hole in
lose in a game
cause to lose in a game
bunch; bundle; faggot; skein; sheaf; tangle
tie into bundles
burst; detonate; explode
explosion; detonation
burst on somebody with a spark (as fire);
spark at; snap or fillip two fingers at someone
in contempt or with a meaning
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family Chiroptera
polomó ̣
poló
v.t.
v.t.
polo
polotirí
n.
n.
gbọrịpoloḅọ
opúpolotiri
pológi or pologi
n.m.f
.
n.
v.i.
pombi(ye)
n.
n.
cause to burst; detonate; explode
disembowel; eviscerate; gut; paunch; remove
entrails of fish or game
street; area; arena; vacant ground
arena; field;
neighbour
Popo
n.
et
big arena; racecourse; stadium
make a struggle (as fish in a canoe); engage in
loud altercation or wrangle; brawl; altercate;
quarrel
struggle; altercation; brawl; quarrel; wrangle
fibrous part of the cut-open coconut, hence
imbi pombiye
suck; draw liquid with mouth
soft immature kernel of oil-palm fruit
be dented
dent
make dent
barrel; cask; puncheon
barrel of salted meat
cask or puncheon of oil
force; oppress
force; oppression
rounded metal vessel for holding child’s
evacuation; potty
resembling grey or ash colour (of fresh water
as the latter becomes abundant and floats on
top of salt or seawater during the rainy
season)
become grey or ash coloured (of seawater in
the rains)
Dahomey
Popoḅó ̣
n.m.f
. & a.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
& n.
a.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
et
Dahomean
t
mould; shape
tree sp. with soft wood
jumble
póo
v.t.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.m.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
n.
póoo
a.
pomi
pondí
póndo
pondo
pondomó ̣
póni
namaponi
pulóponi
ponómọ
tp
co
v.i.
popomó ̣
póro
porogú
poróguporógu
pórogúu
pórogúumọ
póropóro
póropóromọ
pororó
pororómọ
pororopororó
pororopororómọ
posi
poto
e.g. polotirímị ghọ
‘in the street’, ‘in
public’
untidy, badly-fitting (dress)
jumbly
in a jumble
gush; flow (as tears)
with a gush or flow (of tears)
light; of little weight
with light weight
of little weight
with light weight
age-grade
bullet
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cf. pó ̣ọọ
< name of Popo
town
póu
poú1
poú2
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
poú3
poumó ̣
v.t.
v.t.
poúmọ
pọgó ̣
n.
n.
pọgó ̣ ḅélẹ
̣
pọgó ̣ḅélẹ
̣
pọgó ̣ ḅẹlẹmọ
pọgọ-íkpụ
̣
pọgọ-óforofo
pọgọ-ólolo
pọgó ̣ seí
pọgó ̣ seimọ
pọgó ̣tụaye
pọgó ̣tugu
ḅélẹpọgọ
̣
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
ḍarịpọgọ
seípọgó ̣
seipọgó ̣ gbémọ
seipọgó ̣gbémọ
telimó ̣pọgọ
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
pọgó ̣ḅara
a.
adv.
pọgó1̣
v.p.
pọgó ̣la
n.
pọgó ̣laghá
pọgó ̣lamọ
a.
adv.
pọgó ̣lamọ
pọgọmó ̣
pọgó ̣tugu
pó ̣gọị
pó ̣gọị ḅọgọ
pọgọị
pọgọị ḅọgọmó ̣
pọgụ
pọgụḅịḅị
pọgụtugu
a.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
pọgụ ideri
v.p.
bp
bp
dr
bp
mt
mt
mt
lean over
brood; sit on egg (as hen)
hem; turn down and sew in edge of cloth;
hence ḅịtẹ áka pou
press; exert steady force against (something)
oppress; lie heavy on; press, weigh down;
crowd; throng
oppression
A. voice; sound uttered by mouth; tone; sound
with reference to pitch, quality and strength;
modulation of voice to express emotion,
sentiment, etc.; tune; correct intonation in
singing; gullet
have melodious voice
melodiousness of voice
make voice melodious
gizzard; voicebox; larynx; crop; Adam’s apple
trachea or windpipe
trachea or windpipe; melodious voice
have unmelodious voice
make voice unmelodious
necklace
base of the throat
tuneful or melodious voice; blustering voice;
commanding tone
chiding tone
unmelodious voice
to choke on food; swallow the wrong way
choking on food
advice; counsel
B. gluttony; morbid hunger; bulimia
gluttonous; greedy; ravenous; voracious
gluttonously; greedily; ravenously;
voraciously
tire; make or grow weary; have had enough
of; be fed up with; cloy; sate; satiate
satiety; weariness; tiredness; feeling of having
had too much of something
tireless; unwearied; unsatisfied
satisfactorily;
e.g. fị pọgó ̣lamọ
‘eat satisfactorily’
tiring; tiresome; wearisome
make greedy
greed; insatiate longing for food; gluttony
slip from; escape from grasp by force
slip from grip
wrench away from; wrest from; snatch from
wrest from
A. beach; waterside
front of beach; waterfront
shore between high and low water mark
B. feeling of readiness to evacuate bowels
evacuate bowels; excrete; expel waste matter
from system
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pọgụ-ideriyọ
pọgụ koro
pọgụkorowarị
pọgụkoroyaị
pọgụkoroyọ
pọgụ mọndị
pọgụmọndí ̣
pọgụ mú
pọgụmuwarí ̣
pọgụmuyaí ̣
pọgụmuyó ̣
pọgụ tarí ̣
pọgụyaí ̣
pó ̣lụ
pó ̣lụ
pọndí ̣
n.
v.p.
n.
n.pl.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.pl.
n.
v.p.
n.pl.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
yọpọndịḅó ̣
n.m.f
.
a.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
pó ̣ọọ
pọọpó ̣
pọọpó ̣
pọọpó ̣
pọọpó ̣mọ
pọọpó ̣mọ
pó ̣rọgíị̣
pó ̣rọgíịmọ
̣
pọrọmú ̣
pọrọmú ̣pọrọmụ
pọrọpọró ̣
pọrọpọró ̣mọ
mịé ̣ pọrọpọró ̣mọ
pó ̣rọró ̣ọ
pó ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
pọrọrọpọrọró ̣ or
pọró ̣rọpọró ̣rọ
pọrọrọpọrọró ̣mọ
pó ̣sị1
pó ̣sị2
pọsí ̣
pọtí ̣
pọtịápọtịa
pọtịápọtịamọ
pọtọpọtó ̣
pọtọpọtó ̣
pọtọpọtó ̣kiri
pó ̣ụ
pọú ̣
pọú ̣mọ
a
a
bf
a
d
bf
bf
co
co
co
co
co
co
a.
adv.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n. &
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
da
latrine; place for evacuation of bowels
evacuate bowels
latrine house
excrement; faeces; shit; stool
latrine, etc.
have watery evacuations or stool
diarrhoea; dysentery
evacuate bowels
latrine house
excrement; faeces
latrine, etc.
have strong desire to evacuate bowels
excrement; faeces; shit; stool
speak with difficulty
difficulty in speaking
squeeze; compress; massage; rub as part of
treatment
masseur
grey or ash colour
white
become white
whiteness
whitely
become grey or ash coloured (especially of
soup with much fat in it)
littery; jumbly
in a jumble
soften; become soft
soft; yielding to pressure; softish
soften
littery; in a state of untidiness; with objects
lying about
scatteringly; in an untidy way
make (place) untidy; strew; litter
droop; hang down
droopingly
stagger; walk unsteadily; totter
staggeringly
cat; pussy
<English. cf.
elégbesíya
̣
be squashed, crushed
squash; crush or squeeze flat into pulp
putty
la
(cf. póoo)
wealthy; affluent
wealthily; affluently
marshy; miry; muddy
marshiness; muddiness
marshy ground; bog
be washed, purified
wash (cloth, sin); purify
crowd; flock to
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<English
prí ̣
pu1
v.t.
v.i.
pumó ̣
pu2
v.t.
v.t.
púya1
púya2
v.t.
n.
pu tụá
putụáḅọ
púkamọ
púkapúka
pụkọḅá
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
ḍayepụkọḅá
numópụkọḅá
pule
n.
n.
n.
pule sín
v.t.
v.p.
putụáye
pugu
púka
pulesín
puló
pulópagara
pulóponi
pulópulo
pulótombịa
pulótụkpa
ikpekupuló
kụnụpuló
olópulo
ó ̣mbịpulo
taḅápulo
puló
pulo-íkpoun
pumbó
pumbó ḅa
pumbóḅa
púráa
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
púráa
púráamọ
púrapúra1
púrapúra1
púrapúramọ
púrapúra2
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
give
(see pịrí)̣
germinate; sprout; pullulate; spring up; bud;
put forth shoots; develop
cause to shoot or germinate
A. break; split (stick, plank, etc.); burst; crack;
chap; shatter; part or separate hair; shiver
part; quit one another’s company
parting; tributary of a river; road junction
B. anatomize; dissect; perform surgical
operation upon
vaccinate; cut in
vaccinator
fg
fg
tr
tr
bf
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
vaccination
myriad; countless
start to fly; beat wings
flap; light motion of wings
with a flap or flutter
with much flapping (of birds with big wings)
rod or pole of a harpoon or a hand fishing
line, hence:
rod of a fishing line and hook
pole of a harpoon or fishing spear
charm; object having occult power, supposed
to be brought our from an affected part of the
body
charm
remove charm from person’s body by a
medium
removing of a charm from body
A. oil; pomade
half cask of oil
full cask of oil
oily; yellow
quarter-cask of oil
oil lamp
hard oil
soft and fragrant oil
oil fried white
pomade; ointment; unguent
edible palm oil
B. blood
state of being bloodshot in the eye
fart; wind from the anus
emit wind from the anus; fart
fart
flap; flutter; give forth sound (as) of wings of
bird when caught or starting to fly
flap(ping); flutter(ing)
with a flap or flutter
make many flaps and flutters
much flapping or fluttering
with a series of flaps
shed rapid tears
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(rare, <Kalaḅari)
púrapúra2
púrapúramọ
púree
púreemọ
purugúpurugu
purugúpurugumọ
púrugúu
púrugúumọ
pururúu
pururúumọ
pusúu
pusúu
pusúumọ
púu
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
púupúu
púuyọ
púun
púun
pụáa
a.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
pụáa
pụáamọ
pụẹ
pụéẹ̣
púẹ́ ẹmọ
̣
pụéẹpụé
ẹ̣
̣
pụéẹpụé
ẹ̣
̣
pụfáa
pú ̣kapú ̣ka
pụkéẹ̣
pụkéẹmọ
̣
pụkọ
pú ̣kọpú ̣kọ
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
pụkọpụkó ̣
ḅadéde pụkọpụkọ
pú ̣la
a.
adv.
n.m.
pụlá
pụlá
pụlá
pụlámọ
pụlamó
pụlapụlá
pụmbalaḅá
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
edeni-ápụmbalaḅa
fịnị-ápụmbalaḅa
pụmbú ̣
pụn
pụnmó ̣
pụnéẹ̣
n.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
rapid tears
with a gush (of tears)
thickly strewn (of objects floating on water)
in a thickly-strewn way
jumbly
in a jumble
jumbly
in a jumble
sudden; abrupt
suddenly; abruptly
emit sound as of bursting shell or water pot
sound of bursting
with a sound of bursting
be split, burst, cracked (of skin or dried up
earth)
cracked (e.g. of earth); chapped
split; chap; crack; rent; fissure; schism
make sound of fart
fart
beat upon (something) with sound of lapping;
lap
sound of wavelets on beach; lapping
lappingly
be fortunate, lucky, prosperous
lap; beat upon something lightly
lappingly
lap continuously
continuous lapping
spit; eject saliva
flutter; flap
f
become slightly open
ajar; slightly (open)
feather
bald in patches (of hair or feathers); with
matted hair
feathery; with ruffled feathers
very early morning
cassava croaker
paralytic
have paralysis; (of wine) be flat
paralysis
paralytically
paralyse; affect with paralysis; cripple
trace; visible sign
soot; black substance rising in big flakes in
smoke of wood in burning
soot found hanging over fireplace (edení)
flakes that rise above burning fire
brush or clean lightly
silt up; be choked with
close, block or choke up
early (of morning)
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Pseudotolithus
senegalensis
pụnéẹpụné
ẹ̣
̣
pụnụ
a.
n.m.
pú ̣nụkú ̣ụ
pú ̣nụkú ̣ụ
pú ̣nụkú ̣ụmọ
pú ̣nụpú ̣nụ
a.
n.
adv.
a.
pú ̣nụpú ̣nụ
v.i.
& n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
pú ̣nụpú ̣nụmọ
pụpú ̣gu, pụḅú ̣gụ
pụpụrú ̣ụ
pụrá
pụrá
pụrá koro
pụrákoroyọ
pụrámọ
pụrá mu
pụráye
ikupụráye
pú ̣rẹẹ
pú ̣rẹẹmọ
pụréẹpụré
ẹ̣
̣
pú ̣rẹpú ̣rẹ
n.m.f
.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
pú ̣rẹpú ̣rẹmọ
pụrẹpụré ̣
pụrẹpụrémọ
̣
pụrẹpụréyaị
̣
adv.
a.
adv.
n.pl.
pụrú ̣gụ
v.i.
pụrú ̣gụpụrú ̣gụ
pụrú ̣gụpụrú ̣gụmọ
pụrú ̣gụyó ̣
a.
adv.
n.
pụrụgú ̣
v.t.
pụrụgú ̣mọ
pụrụgú ̣yọ
pụrụpụrú ̣
pụrụpụrú ̣mọ
pụrụpụrú ̣yaị
pú ̣sa
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
n.pl.
v.i.
pụráḅọ
m
very early (of morning)
genet[s] spp.
cosy; snug
cosiness; snugness
cosily; snugly
fine; not thick; scanty (of hair, rain, grass,
etc.)
drizzle
pp
scantily; in a drizzly way
peduncle or stalk of palm bunch
declare; say out; let out
carry; convey; transport
carriage; conveyance; manner of carrying;
transport
porter; carrier
reclaim; win back from waste condition
reclamation
accrete; form round a nucleus
carry away or off to
carrier (for loads)
burden; load
quiet
quietly
breathe quietly and exhaustedly
blow in lightly (as wind); open in rapid
succession (as book caused by wind)
in rapid succession
fragmentary
in shreds or pieces
shreds; scraps; fragments; small remains;
pieces
fall into creases; pucker or gather into folds as
fault in sewing
creasy; wrinkly
with creases and wrinkles
pucker; wrinkle; crease; place gathered into
folds as fault in sewing
crease; tousle; wrinkle (fabric, garments,
leaves, etc.); gather or pucker garments into
folds intentionally as part of style; rumple
pucker; crease
pucker, pleat (deliberately put in dress)
fine; small (grains); fragmentary
into pieces
shreds; scraps; crumbs; fragments; pieces
become furled because of bad wind (of sail)
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blotched
genet
(large-spot genet),
Genetta
tigrina
pardina,
and
servaline
genet
(crested
genet),
Genetta servalina
cristata
pụsámọ
pú ̣sụpú ̣sụ
pú ̣sụpú ̣sụ
pú ̣sụpú ̣sụmọ
pụsú ̣ụ
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
e.g. anga pụsámọ
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
cause to drift to a corner (of wind or current);
prolific; producing much offspring
prolificness
prolificly
emit sound as of a bursting receptacle, or of a
boil
sound of bursting
with a bursting sound
fragmentary
in small pieces
pieces with small numbers (in card games)
very small; tiny
very small; tiny
make small
puff; emit puff of air or breath
puff; short quick blast of breath
with a puff
beat upon (something) with sound of lapping;
lap
with a lap
lap
with a lap
lap continuously
continuous lapping
pụsú ̣ụ
pụsú ̣ụmọ
pụtụpụtú ̣
pụtụpụtú ̣mọ
pụtụpụtú ̣yaị
pụtụrụpụtụrú ̣
pú ̣tụrú ̣ụ
pú ̣tụrú ̣ụmọ
pú ̣ụ
pú ̣ụ
pú ̣ụmọ
pụwáa
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.pl.
a.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
pụwáamọ
pụwéẹ̣
pụwéẹmọ
̣
pụwéẹpụwé
ẹ̣
̣
pụwéẹpụwé
ẹ̣
̣
part.
A. emphasises the word that precedes it;
conj.
B. then; in that case; it follows that:
e.g. érị
̣ ị tịíṇ ‘I
called you’, érị
̣ rẹ ị
tịíṇ ‘it is/was I that
called you’; ó kịẹrị
ḅoghá ‘he did not
come’; ó kịẹrị ré ̣
ḅoghá ‘it is/was he
alone that did not
come’
e.g. ị ḅoghá ẹḅẹḅẹ
ré ̣ wa ḍumọ
tínnyụú
̣
̣ ‘if you do
not come then we
shall call another
person’
Hevea brasiliensis
(Euphorbiaceae)
<English
R.
rẹ
ró ̣ba
n.
cr
rubber plant and processed product
273
S.
sa
sa fí ̣
sa gbé ̣
sa koromó ̣
ḅógoisa
n.
v.p.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
otumósa
ziḅaéremasá
n.
n.
sáa! 1
sáa! 2
sáan
sáanmọ1
sáanmọ2
sáasáa
sáasáamọ
saḅa
saḅaḅọgọ
saḅámọ
saḅamó ̣
sagị
v.i.
& t.,
excl.
excl.
v.i.
adv.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
mindí ságị
sáị
saí1̣
v.p.
v.i.
v.t.
saímọ
̣
1
saí ̣
saí1̣
v.t.
saị-áye
saí2̣
saí f̣ ị
saífị̣
saídu
̣
n.pl.
saịsaí ̣
ḅẹlẹụsaịsaí ̣
sájị
sakala
sakasaká
sakasakáyaị
sakasakáyọ
sákpee
v.p.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
a.
a.
v.i.
n.pl.
n.
a.
arrears; outstanding debt; dues
owe (debt); be in debt
pay debt, dues or arrears
give on credit
credit to pay at more favourable time (usually
in dry season)
adultery fee
debt not easily settled, owing to complexity
and magnitude
shoo; (utter) sound to frighten birds away;
drive away thus
exclamation expressing regret
wrinkle; produce wrinkles (on forehead)
with wrinkles
without further argument
forcible
forcibly
cross; step over; pass over
passover
intercept; prevent passage; span; cross over
cause to cross towards a point
broadcast (sand, seed, water); bespatter;
spatter; splash (water)
bathe
be laid upon
A. impose; place or lay charge or something
upon;
send (something) through someone
B. place crosswise; cross (legs); hence
C. put something into a canoe or vehicle; lade;
load;
f
cl
mi
cargo; freight of ship
occurs in;
commit adultery
committing of adultery
big skate or ray; turbot
forefront, van
forefront
serge (cloth)
thin; delicate
rattling
rattle
rattle; rattling things
very minute drop
high; tall
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e.g. ye ékị
̣ tịḅị ghọ
saí ̣
ḅụọ saị ‘cross legs’
e.g. arụ ghọ ye saí;̣
dó ̣ngọị saí ‘ship
̣
oars’; ship, take or
send away (goods
or passengers) on
canoe or ship; ferry
order Rajiformes;
order
Pleuronectiformes
<English
sákpeemọ
sálaláa
sálaláamọ
salasalá
salasalámọ
sambí1̣
sambí2̣
sán
sánmọ1
sanmó1̣
yesanyé
san
sánmọ2
sanmó2̣
sána1
sánamọ
sána2
saná
sanámọ
sangá
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
agbakásanga
mindísanga
nẹmú ̣sanga
sanga1
sanga2
sangala
sangịsangí ̣
sangịsangímọ
̣
sángoloḅá
sángoloḅaḅio
sángoloḅafa
sánị1
sanímọ
̣
sánị2
saní1̣
sanịmó ̣
saní2̣
sánị-ákpa
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.
cr
cr
1
saníwarị
̣
2
saníwarị
̣
n.
n.
cr
bm
fịsaní ̣
n.
cr
cluster of pepper seed
contractile muscular glands showing on the
body of woman after child birth
alligator pepper plant and fruit -
íkpungúlusanị
n.
cr
round pepper
kalasaní ̣
opusaní ̣
pẹrẹsaní ̣
n.
n.
n.
cr
cr
cr
small peppers; chillies
big peppers; capsicums
sweet pepper plant and fruit resembling
b
t
t
t
i
tp
fg
tp
fp
fp
fp
in a tall way
motionless and rigid
motionless and rigidly
protruding; scattered (of bones)
in a protruding or scattered way
key
grate
grate into
make one to grate
grater
urinate
urinate upon
make one to urinate
be unconcerned or indifferent
unconcernedly
be sprinkled with
splash (with liquid or powder); sprinkle
sprinkle with
tree sp.
species of sangá tree
species of sangá tree
insect sp.
dead tree (fallen or standing)
fish-trap
dead twig
lively
in a lively way
gills of fish; branchiae
gill chamber of fish
abranchial
shine; glisten; glister; glitter; gleam; sparkle
shine upon
melt; become liquefied by heat
melt; reduce to liquid condition by heat; smelt
cause to melt
condiment; peppers; capsicum
spice pepper plant
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Piptadeniastrum
africanum (Hook.f.)
Brenan
(LeguminosaeMimosoideae)
Aframomum
longiscapum
(Zingiberaceae)
Aframomum
melegueta
Capsicum sp.
(Solanaceae)
taḅásanị
sapíị̣
n.
v.i.
sapíịmọ
̣
sapó
sára1
n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
sára2
furá sára
furására
sára3
sára imbi
sára-imbi
sará1
v.i.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
sarámọ
v.t.
ogbó sarámọ
sará2
v.p.
v.t.
sara1
sara2
saragbana
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.
sara3
v.t.
sara4
saramó ̣
ḅará sara
ḅerí sara
ḅịḅị sara
ḅụọ sara
odúsara
tọrú ̣ sara
sara5
saratịḅí ̣
sara6
a.
adv.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
saraga
ikiḅasaragá
sázị
segí
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
cr
fg
fg
bp
cl
r
alligator pepper
edible peppers and capsicums in general
splash; make a jumping and falling noise in
water; make noisy display in water
noisy splash
with a splash
sponge
collapse (of house, etc.); be poured out (of
liquid); be shed (blood); fall, be demolished
abort; miscarry
abort; miscarry
abortion; miscarriage
method of fishing (by women)
fish by the sará method
fishing by the sará method
pour out; empty; crumble; demolish; wreck;
fall (of liquid, works, house, etc.); drop, shed
(blood, tears); hence warí or
̣ odúaị sara
cause to pour upon (blessing, sand, water,
etc.); fall upon; rain on; besprinkle; sprinkle;
smear; soil
pour into one place; put together; pile; heap
disgorge; regurgitate; disembogue; vomit:
hence ḅịḅị ghọ sará
cause to abort or miscarry
lay rafters on roof of house
rafter
outer wall-plate stick in native building
pay out or away (rope) by slackening it or
letting out more
quick
quickly
be quick at handwork
be quick at hearing
be quick at speech
be quick at walking
smart; brisk; quick
smartness; briskness; quickness
be quick at making friends
dunghill; compost heap
top of dunghill
small round or oblong bullet for fire-arms
manufactured from lead bars called mamba,
used in cannons
rib
floating rib
serge; kind of cloth
crocodile spp.
276
(see agbangba)
(see agbangba
sogió)
<English
N ile crocodile,
Crocodylus
niloticus, and
slender-snouted
crocodile, C.
cataphractus (=
segí
seí
n.m.
a.
ms
v.i.
n.
sei-áfịaị
seiḅághá
sei-amịéyaị
̣
sei-angá
seíḅio
sei-éne
sei-éwụ
̣
sei ékị
̣ pága
sei-ékịpága
̣
seífa
n.pl.
v.i.
n.pl.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
séifú ̣rụ
n.
sei-ígbogi
seimindí
seí mịẹ
seímịẹḅó ̣
seímọ
n.
n.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
adv.
seimó1̣
v.t.
ḅió seimọ
ḅióseimọ
v.p.
a.
ḍigí seimó ̣
ḍigíseimó ̣
fie seimó ̣
ifié seimọ
indí seimọ
indíseimọ
odú seimọ
tịḅị ḅio saimó ̣
seísei fụrú ̣
ḅióseí
odúseí
seí2
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
a.
n.
v.i.
seimó2̣
v.i.
p
masquerade depicting the crocodile
bad; addled; worthless; faulty; detestable;
corrupt; indecent; abominable; odious;
lascivious; lewd; licentious; lustful; immoral;
evil
become bad; grow addled; become corrupt;
become spoilt
bad; abomination; crime; mischief;
wickedness; sin
bad food
get worse (in state of health)
bad character or bad manners
bad or addled egg
bad humour; bad mind
bad day; dark cloud
bad air
confess
confession
guileless; guiltless; innocent; without blemish;
sinless
groin; inflammation of the glands in the groin;
inguinal bubo
bad coin; counterfeit (coin)
gleet (of sore); bad water or tide
do mischief, sin
sinner
badly; very much (want a thing); defectively;
faultily
abolish; destroy; spoil; lay waste; abrogate;
cancel; repeal; revoke; rescind; annul;
infringe; transgress; violate; defile; corrupt;
taint; soil; sully; infect; abominate; adulterate
nauseate
filthy; loathsome; obscene; repulsive;
nauseous
despise; detest; dislike; hate; loathe
contempt; dislike; detestation
speak ill of
waste (time)
steam fish for future use
steaming of fish for future use
emaciate; make lean
debauch
rage; heat up (of quarrel, hunger, dance, etc.)
wicked-hearted
lean
leanness
when following a repeated verb means
‘however’;
bloom; blossom; flower (of tree)
277
isegí). cf. igére1
(= isegí). cf. igére1
(pl. seímịẹ-ongú)
e.g. á fie fie seí
‘however I talked’;
á mịé ̣ mịé ̣ seí
‘however I acted’
seimó3̣
n.
seín
sélein
selelée
seleléemọ
seminísemini
seriḅá
v.t.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
serimindi
serinoin
n.
n.
seseúnseseun
a.
seseúnseseunmọ
seun
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
& a.
seminíseminimọ
sereseré
sereserémọ
seri
séún agbara
sẹ
séẹ̣
sẹgbọrú ̣
sẹgị
sẹgímọ
̣ 1
sẹgímọ
̣ 2
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
& t.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
tr
f
dc
dc
dc
n.
sẹlén’ẹkị
̣
sẹlén’ẹkịté
̣
̣
adv.
n.pl.p ms
ers.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.t.
a.
séṇ 1
v.t.
sẹgímọmọ
̣
sẹkịapụ
sélẹ
̣ 1
sélẹ
̣ 2
sẹlé ̣
sẹléḅọ
̣
charm or protective device; amulet; antidote;
antitoxin; antivenene; panacea; general
remedy
drink soup or any liquid in sips; sip
shilling piece
be pushed out suddenly
with a sudden push
pathetic; inspiring pity
feel pity for
feeling of pity; sentimentality; sentimentalism
with a feeling of pity
luscious; sugary; richly sweet in taste
lusciously
flow; rise slowly (of tide)
flow; flowing of tide
still flowing full
flow-tide; inflow
period of tide when night falls while water is
still flowing
dank; soaked; oozy; unpleasantly or
unwholesomely damp (of ground, etc.);
dampish
become damp
damply
fish sp., snapper sp.
fish sp., snapper sp.
tribe; nation; state
be tired
world; earth; planet
dance; fawn upon; gambol; move with
rhythmical steps, leaps, etc., to music, alone
or with set
dance; dancing motion
dance towards (an object)
flutter; dither; be in a flurry; shake; shiver;
quiver; quake; tremble; oscillate; vibrate
flutter; dither; flurry; shaking; shivering;
quivering; quaking; trembling; oscillation;
vibration; trepidation
shiveringly; quiveringly; tremblingly
club of masquerade dancers
become threadbare (of cloth)
be selected; be picked
choose; pick; select; sift
choice; selection
chooser; selector
choose, select and take
chosen for excellence; picked by exclusion of
what is inferior; select
present (money, gift, etc.) to somebody for
278
Lutjanus sp. cf.
agbára
Lutjanus sp.
performance
shave (hair)
lean against; recline
deck- or easy-chair
skew; slanting or sloping upwards or uphill
silk cloth
neat (of cut edge)
neatly
twenty; score
twentieth
twentiethly
thirty
thirtieth
thirtiethly
eight thousand
carry in hand; hold; manage or possess as a
pet
domestic animal
keep livestock
keeping of livestock
be older than (by birthright); hence,
si-ọndé ̣
siḅá
v.t.
v.t.
n.
a.
n.m.
a.
adv.
num.
a.
adv.
num.
a.p.
adv.
num.
v.t.
siḅánama
nama siḅa
namasiḅa
sigi
n.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
sigíya
v.i.
follow one another (by birthright);
sigímọ
a.
sigimó ̣
n.
v.t.
distant; far away; far apart; remote;
disconnected
distance; remoteness
A. isolate; place apart or alone; segregate; put
apart from the rest; separate; disunite; keep
from union or contact; divorce partially; expel
or shut out (person) from society; except or
exclude (thing) from enumeration or
statement, etc.; make objection against
isolation; segregation; separation; excepting;
exception; exclusion; partial divorce
separate partially from each other
set apart or aside (to God or for a purpose)
B. except; excepting, not including; but
séṇ
sẹrérẹ
̣ 2
sẹrérẹ-ịkasị
̣
sẹrérẹpaga
̣
sẹrí ̣
séụn
̣
séụnmọ
̣
si
sikaramọ
si oyi fịndị
si oyi fịndị karamó ̣
n.
sigimó ̣ya
ḍịé ̣ sigimó ̣
v.i.
adv.
cl
da
sigimọ
conj.
except; unless; save
ḅarásigimọ
sigirí
sigirimó ̣
síin
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
except that
rub
rub in
move
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? < English
érị
̣ a sigí ‘I am
older than she’
e.g. ení sigíya ‘they
follow one another
(by birth)’
e.g. Ada sigimó ̣ pịóngumeín bịsẹ ḅó
‘except Ada all the
other people should
come’; besides; else
than; ẹrị sigimó ̣
dụmó ̣ fá ‘there is
none besides you’
(contraction of
ḅẹrẹsigimọ) ;e.g. ị
mịé ̣ (ḅẹrẹ)sigimọ ị
fínyụú
̣
̣ ‘unless you
did (it) you will die’
síin
síkakáa
síkakáamọ
sikasiká
sikasikámọ
sikikíisikikíi
sikikíisikikíi
sikikíisikikíi
sikikíisikikíimọ
sikirísikiri
sikisikí
sikisikí
sikisikí
sikisikímọ
síko
n.
a.
adv.
adv.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
sikómọ
v.t.
sikó
siko1
siko2
v.t.
n.
n.
siléti
silíva
sílo
n.
n.
v.i.
síloyó ̣
n.
mịé ̣ silomó ̣
silosiló
sílosílo
simbi
siméti
sín1
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
sínmọ
v.t.
ḅutụawei sín
fịrí g̣ họ sín
kó ̣n sín
kụó ̣ sín
osungá sin
sín koro
sín2
sín3
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
v.t.
sín4
adv.
sílosílomọ
sílulúu
sílulúumọ
símbi
fp
ms
movement
huge; enormous; very large
enormously
very large; etc.
enormously
fussy
fuss
fuss; fussiness
fussily
several places
fussy
fuss
fuss; fussiness
fussily
make jerky movement (of canoe); make jerky
sobs after crying or due to stammering
make jerky movement towards somebody as if
to flog
blow bellows
dorsal fin
humped device tied to front and back of waist
of a masquerade
slate
silver
kink; form kink or back twist (of rope); form
hangnail (of nail)
kink; back twist (of wire, thread, etc.);
hangnail
cause to kink
kinky
fuss
fuss; fussiness
fussily
elastic
elastically
drown; be submerged in liquid
drowning
drown; submerge in liquid
cement
remove; cashier; dismiss from service;
depose; discard; eradicate; weed; take off;
divert; unclothe
leave (hair, garment, feather, etc.) in
somebody’s grip or hold
divest; unclothe
cashier; dismiss
take away or off; remove
erase; expunge
eradicate; weed
fall off or fall down
take photograph;
mention; specify by name; adduce; cite as
proof or instance
again; once more;
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<English
<English
<English
fotó sin
e.g. sín ḅé ̣ ‘speak
again’; sín tun
‘sing again’
síndo
n.
sindó
n.
sindondó
singí
v.t.
n.m.
v.t.
cl
síbụụmọ
̣
síḅịrí
̣ ị̣
sídị
̣
sịdí ̣
sịdịmó1̣
sịdịmó2̣
a.
a.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
num.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
sígọ
̣
v.i.
sịgọ
v.t.
síị̣
síịnmọ
̣
sịka
sịkakigi
excl.
v.i.
& t.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.m.
n.
1
síkaká
̣
n.
t
2
síkaká
̣
sịkara(mó ̣)
sikí ̣
n.
adv.
v.t.
sp
sịkịrísịkịrị
̣
sịkịrísịkịrịmọ
̣
v.i.
adv.
sinungúsinungu
sínungúu
sínye
sipúu
sipúumọ
siwei
siweikaramọ
síbụụ
̣
síịịn
̣
síịịnmọ
̣
síịịnyọ
̣
síịn
̣
d
tr
f
name for sandstone-rock formation regarded
as sacred
informal apology (sorry) for striking foot on a (Kalaḅarị origin)
deity
say such apology
cloth type
knead (as bread); work up (water and leaves)
into paste
doughy; fibrous
doughy; pasty; fibrous
cholera; diarrhoea and vomiting
snap; sharp crack
with a sharp crack
thirty
thirtieth
thirtiethly
persistent
persist; be persistent
persistence; persistency
persistently
slender (of waist); wasp-waisted
become knotted or entangled
knot; tangle
cause to knot
charm or protective device worn on the upper
arm; amulet; periapt
entangle (as in mesh); stick, lodge (as piece of
meat in teeth)
lodge or stick mats into a roof as sign of
repairs
shoo!
utter sound to frighten birds away; drive away
thus; shoo away
ooze; exude; percolate; leak
oozily
ooziness; exudation; percolation
insistent
insist; dwell long on
insistence
insistently
stingray; small ray or skate
family Dasyatidae
gable; gable end of building; so called perhaps
because of resemblance to ray (triangle)
silk cotton tree; kapok, ceiba species
Ceiba pentandra
(Bombacaceae)
mast (of ship)
quick(ly)
desert; forsake; refuse; shun; avoid; eschew;
abdicate
hesitate; be reluctant; linger
hesitatingly
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síkọ
̣
sílọọ
̣
sílọọmọ
̣
símụụ
̣
símụụmọ
̣
símụnú
̣
̣ụ
símụnú
̣
̣ụmọ
sịmụsịmú ̣
sịmụsịmú ̣mọ
síṇ
sínató
̣
̣rụ
sínẹ
̣
sịngá
sịngamó ̣
síngalí
ị̣
̣
síngalí
ịmọ
̣
̣
sịngé ̣
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
n.m.
v.i.
& n.
a.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
r
c
sịngẹmó ̣
sịngésịngẹ
̣
sịngésịngẹmọ
̣
sịngí ̣
v.t.
a.
adv.
n.m.
f
ịsịngí ̣
n.m.
f
1
síngịlị
̣
2
síngịlị
̣
sịngịlí ̣
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
sịngịsịngí ̣
sịngịsịngímọ
̣
sịnịḅá
sịnịḅámọ
sínịḅáa
̣
sínịḅáamọ
̣
sịnịní1̣
sịnịní2
sịnịníị̣
sịnịníịmọ
̣
sịnịnísịnịnị
̣
sịnịsịní ̣
sịnịsịnímọ
̣
sịnsíṇ
hiccough; hiccup
persistent
persist; be persistent
persistence; persistency
persistently
unrelaxing; taut
unrelaxingly; tautly
tight; taut
tightly; tautly
tight; taut
tightly; tautly
large water tortoise or turtle
fiddler-crab
hoop or whoop
not full; half
half
lessen in volume
in a reduced condition
slender
slenderly
drowse; doze; be in half-asleep condition
doze; drowse; short slumber; half-asleep
condition
make drowsy
drowsy; sleepy
drowsily; sleepily
large kind of ọtíọ,̣ a sea catfish (‘orangecoloured flesh catfish’; ‘real grown catfish’;
‘second-stage catfish’; ‘young type catfish’)
large kind of ọtíọ,̣ a sea catfish (‘orangecoloured flesh catfish’; ‘real grown catfish’;
‘second-stage catfish’; ‘young type catfish’)
scream (with laughter)
be constricted
constrict
constriction
long (of speech, story)
in a long manner
keep or stand aloof
aloof; away; apart
aloof
aloofly
give newly born child its first wash
first washing of a newly-born child
spurt; jet
spurt; gush out in a jet
in a jet
silky
pathetic; affecting; touching; gruesome; grisly
touchingness; gruesomeness
gruesomely; touchingly
insistent
insist; dwell long on
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(suótọrụ-wálaị)
Arius sp. = ịsịngí. ̣
nẹngú ̣
Arius sp. = ịsịngí. ̣
nẹngú ̣
sịnsínmọ
̣
sịnya1
sịnyasịnyá
kọngó ̣sịnya
togurúsịnya
n.
adv.
n.
a.
n.
n.
sịnya2
sịnya3
n.
n.
sínyatun
̣
sínyọọ
̣
sínyọọmọ
̣
sịó ̣bọdọ
sịpú ̣ụ
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
sírị̣
n.
n.m.
sógio-ẹgbẹgụaḅó ̣
sogio1
sogiomó ̣
a.
adv.
n.
a.
n.m.
v.t.
v.t.
ḍigí sogiomó ̣
odúsogiomọ
odúsogiomọ
sogio sín
sogio2
v.p.
a.
n.
v.p.
v.t.
sogoló
sógu
sógu paga
sogu1
n.
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
sogu-ongú
n.pl.p
ers.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
a.
a.
sịrịsịrí ̣
sịrịsịrímọ
̣
sógio
sogu-ọlalí ̣
sogu wagí ̣
kirísoguyé
sogu2
sogu gbaná
sogugbana-ételi
sója
sójaḅó ̣
sókokóo
sókolóo
sokosokó
t
insistence
insistently
nerve; sinew; tendon
sinewy; fibrous
jugular vein of the neck
veins moving the parietal muscles during
mastication
piassava rope from raffia
wild date-palm
m
straw hat made from wild date-palm leaves
insistent
insist; be insistent
insistence
insistently
shea-butter
make light sharp sound (as of a sharp knife
cutting a thread)
such sound
leopard, ‘tiger’
serial; in orderly sequence
serially
height; elevation
high; of exalted rank
high priest
pick up; lay hold of and take up; remove
lift up; raise; elevate; accelerate; exalt in rank;
promote; cause to advance to
esteem highly, or to a high degree
proud; arrogant; haughty; presumptuous
pride; arrogance
remove
begin; commence; raise (work, song, etc.);
hence
loop
be dug-cut
be rooted out; be dug out
dig; bore; canal; excavate; root out; exhume;
disentomb; unearth; make hole; harvest
reapers; harvesters
harvest festival
plough over
plough
canal; artificial water course
construct causeway
causeway
soldier
soldier
tall or high
high (of stern and bow of canoe)
tall or high
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Phoenix reclinata.
= ásịngásị
<English
Panthera pardus.
<Kalaḅarị. cf.
kụró ̣-nama
numo sogio ‘begin
or raise a song’
<English
(pl. sója-ongú)
sólobáa
sólolóo
solosoló
sómbi
sondio
sóndio
sondio-esí
sondiokaramó ̣
sondi’ọndé ̣
sopíi
sopíimọ
sopisopí
sopisopímọ
sóropíi
soropisoropí
a.
a.
a.
v.i.
n.
num.
n.
num.
a.
adv.
num.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
sou1
a.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
sou paga
n.
v.p.
mịé ̣ soumó1̣
sou2
sou tịẹ
fíghọsou
̣
v.p.
v.i.
v.p.
n.
mịé ̣ soumó2̣
sou3
sou ḅọgọ
soumó ̣
v.p.
v.i.
v.p.
v.t.
koromó ̣ sou
v.p.
firíghọsou
̣
só ̣bịlị
só ̣gị
sọgị
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
só ̣gọị
só ̣gọịmọ
só ̣gọịtoíye
sọgọị
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.t.
sọgọịyé
a.
n.
sóroróo
sorosoró
to
tall or long
tall or long
long
squat; crouch with hams resting on back of
heels
squatting posture
six
six fingers or toes on a hand or foot
hundred and twenty
sixth
sixthly
two thousand four hundred
drip; drop; fall in drops
in drops
fall in succession in drops
in drops
jump and fall; fall in big drops
jump and fall in succession; drop
continuously
bulgy; swollen
bulge; swell out
bulgy; swollen
bulge; swell out
grow; develop; germinate; sprout; bud; put
forth shoots
growth; germination; development
go out; spring up; grow up; sprout; put forth
shoots
cause to grow, develop, germinate, sprout
rise; get up; resurge; revive
arise; stand up
resurrection; rising again from dead at the last
day
resurrect; raise from dead
retire; withdraw; go away; resign from;
depart; go away
dismiss; dissolve; disperse; disband; send
away
leave; let remain; depart without taking
deserts; abandon; give up to
retirement; resignation
shovel; spade
be picked or pulled out
pick; probe with knife or pointed instrument
to remove something (as coconut from shell
and extraneous matter from teeth)
conceal oneself; be hidden
concealment; hiding
clandestinely; secretly; surreptitiously
game of hide-and-seek; bo-peep
hide; put, keep out of sight; conceal; cloak;
disguise; dissemble
clandestine; secret; surreptitious
secret; thing kept secret
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e.g. fịrí ghọ
sou
̣
<English
sọgọịyó ̣
só ̣ịịn
só ̣ịịnmọ
só ̣kị
só ̣kị tụa
sọkịsọkí ̣
sọkọ
n.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
só ̣lọlíịmọ
̣
só ̣lọló ̣ọ
n.m.
a.
a.
a.
a.
a.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
só ̣lọló ̣ọmọ`
sọmbí ̣
só ̣mụ
sọmụsọmú ̣
adv.
n.
n.
a.
só ̣mụụ
só ̣ngọlọ
sọngọló1̣
ḅió sọngọlọmó ̣
ḅiósọngọlọmọ
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
ḅiósọngọlọmọḅara
sọngọló2̣
adv.
v.t.
sọní ̣
v.t.
sọnịsọní ̣
a.
n.
adv.
num.
num.
a.
adv.
num.
num.
num.
a.
a.
adv.
num.
n.m.
sọkọ-ekué
só ̣kọkó ̣ọ
só ̣kọló ̣ọ
só ̣kọmú ̣ụ
só ̣kọpíị̣
só ̣kọró ̣ọ
sọkọsọkó ̣
só ̣lọlíị̣
sọnịsọnímọ
̣
sọnọ
sọnọ-esí
sọnọkaramọ
sọn’ọndé ̣
sọnó ̣ma
sọnọma-esí
sọnó ̣makaramọ
sọnọma-ọndé ̣
sọnọmasikó
secret place; hide-out; hiding-place
move or sail fast on water; glide fast
f
f
f
fast; swiftly
chock; wedge
chock; wedge
put chock or wedge
apex; extreme top of tree
fish sp. of the mackerel family
fish sp. of the mackerel family
tall and vertical
long and horizontal
pointed (of navel)
high and narrow
tapering
of faint rattling
laden
be loaded to strain bearing capacity
in a loaded way
conical; long and slender; elongated (e.g. of
head)
prolately
something sweet or dainty
sum; arithmetical problem
uncircumcised; having the prepuce still on
penis; (of crop) immature; wormlike
feel loathsome
be nauseated
nausea; loathing; e.g. ḅió sọngọlọ
nauseate
nauseate; affect with nausea
nauseous; causing nausea; loathing;
disgusting; nasty
nauseously
rape, ravish, violate (child); molest somebody
with abusive words
bone; take out the bones from; clear bone of
adherent flesh; pick
detailed
detail
in detail
five
hundred
fifth
fifthly
two thousand
seven
hundred and forty
seventh
seventhly
two thousand eight hundred
fish sp.; mackerel sp.
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<English
family Carangidae.
cf. ekué
<English
family Carangidae
sọnọníị̣
sọnọníịmọ
̣
sọnọnísọnọnị
̣
v.i.
adv.
a.
sọnọnísọnọnị-aye
̣
sọnọnísọnọnịmọ
̣
só ̣rọpíị̣
só ̣rọró ̣ọ
só ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
só ̣sị
só ̣sịwarị
só ̣sọ
sọsó ̣
só ̣tị
só ̣ụn
súaa
súaamọ
suáa
n.pl.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.i.
suáamọ
súangíi
súangíimọ
suansuán
suansuánmọ
sukáa
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
s
i
súnmọ
sunmó ̣
sunungúsunungu
súnungúu
súnungúumọ
suó1
suó ḅẹ
suó2
suófịnị
suófịnịdayé
suótọrụ
suré
n.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
a.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
a.
adv.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
ft
sure ímbi
v.p.
ft
sukáamọ
sukúlu
sukúlu-igbogi
sukúlutọgụ
sukúluwarị
sule
numo sule
súlulúu
sumein
sún
wt
glide over swiftly (as snake)
sleekly
sleek; smooth and soft and glossy; smoothly
gliding
snakes (swift-gliding)
sleekly
jump and fall lightly in water
elongated (e.g. of head or plank)
prolately
Church; public worship
church; building for public Christian worship
be pierced
thrust; pierce
shirt
worm
profuse; plentiful
profusely; plentifully
splurge; make noisy effort (especially of fish
in water
noisy splashing
with a splurge
long and thick (hair growth)
thickly and long
with whiskers; filamentary; filamentous
fibrously
splurge; make noisy effort (especially of fish
in water
noisy splashing
with a splurge or splash
school
school fees
scholar; school-child
school building
sing aloud
sing song loudly
snouted; slow-moving
chide; scold
foolish
foolishness
foolishly
befool; bamboozle; dupe; hoax; mystify
spongy
spongy
spongily
score or point in game of igboun
score a point
sky; heaven
thunder; lightning
lightning conductor
firmament; sky
room for fish formed by overhanging roots of
plants growing near water
fish around such overhanging roots
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<English
<English
(see idié)
sure-ímbi
sure
súrurúu
súrurúumọ
susú
n.
v.t.
n.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
ft
n.
fg
súu
v.t.
n. &
v.i.
n. &
v.t.
v.t.
súumọ
sụáa
n.
adv.
v.i.
sụáamọ
sụansụán
sụansụánmọ
sụasụáa
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
susúmọ
sútu
sutúu
sụgá
adv.
v.i.
& t.
v.t.
sụgbá1
sụgbá2
sú ̣gịrị
v.t.
n.
v.i.
sụgịrí ̣
v.t.
sụasụáamọ
sú ̣ga
sụgụmó ̣
sụkáa
n.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
sụkáamọ
sú ̣kpụrú ̣ụ
sú ̣kpụrú ̣ụmọ
sú ̣kụrú ̣ụ
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
sụgịrịmó ̣
sụgú ̣
ft
sn
fishing around overhanging roots
chide; scold; rebuke
scolding
bulgy; stodgy
bulge; swell out (with advanced pregnancy)
bulginess; stodginess
with a bulge
scoop crayfish or shrimp with hand-net;
otóku susu
hand-net for killing shrimps; susu ígbọ
or
̣
otóku susu
refuse to accept and send back a present
suit
<English
stew
<English
plunge violently; move straight on water (of
large object; cf. só ̣ịịn)
violent plunge; straight gliding movement
with a violent plunge; moving straight
splurge; make light noisy effort (especially of
fish in water
less noisy splashing
with a light splurge or splash
in threads; filamentary
fibrously
drip (as blood), or jump (as mudskipper), in
rapid succession
in rapid drips or jumps
be stuck or fixed; wear (as feather, sword,
small stick in hair, headgear or waistband)
stick, fix (knife, dagger, etc., in waistband or
in mat wall or roof for safety)
refuse (especially work); hence fịrí sụgba
̣
snail sp.
be washed; dissolve; melt; become liquid;
decline in health; waste away; (of coloured
material or dye) not bear washing
wash; cleanse with liquid; (of moving liquid)
denude; assoil; absolve from sin; sift (ore) by
action of water
washing; wash
carry along (of moving water); dissolve; melt
unsteady (of boat in water)
be unstable in water
unsteadiness (of boat in water)
cause to be or make unsteady
light splurge; make light noisy effort
(especially of fish in water
light splashing
with a light splurge or splash
snouted
in a snouted way
tight; closely drawn
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sú ̣kụrú ̣ụmọ
sụkụrú ̣ụsụkụrú ̣ụ
sụkụrú ̣ụsụkụrú ̣ụm
ọ
sú ̣lẹléẹ̣
sú ̣lẹléẹmọ
̣
sú ̣máịn
sụn
adv.
v.i.
adv.
tightly
move unfreely
with hampered movement
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
v.t.
motionless
motionlessly
sigh
sụnmó ̣
sụnsú ̣n
sụnmó2̣
sú ̣ngbaị
sú ̣ngbaịmọ
sụngbalí ̣
ḅarásụngbalị
ḅụọsụngbalị
sụngbalịḅá
sụngụ1
sụngụmó1̣
sụngụ2
sụngụmó2̣
sú ̣ọ1
n.
v.t.
a.
n.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
odú sú ̣ọ
sú ̣ọ2
v.p.
v.i.
sú ̣ọ3
sú ̣ụ4
v.i.
a.
oló sú ̣ọ
sụọ1
v.p.
v.i.
& t.
sụọ ḅo
sụọ ẹrị
sụọ fá
sụọfá
sụọmindi
sụó ̣mọ
sụọmó1̣
sụọ prí ̣
sụọprí ̣
sụọye
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.p.
n.
n.
sụọyọ
anga sụọ
kamí ṣ ụọ
yoú sụọ
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
1
bp
bp
bp
stretch; make taut; tighten; straighten; lay out;
spread
continuous expanse or tract; stretch; line
stretch forth
striped
wallplate; beam
persistent
persistently
phalange; finger or toe
finger
toe
knot; noose
join; unite; connect (rope)
join; connect (rope)
continue; remain in existence; not cease
maintain; keep up (action, etc.)
become; come into being; begin to be;
convalesce; regain health; grow fat
entangle; catch; involve; tangle (in snare,
difficulties or obstacles)
be deceived
smooth (of powder, pomade, etc., on skin);
ground fine (of tobacco); boiled white (of oil)
become white (of cooked oil)
(of school, meeting) begin; start; commence;
enter (also of any gathering); rise (of flood
water); enter into picture
come in; come with
join to see with; concur with
be lost; perish; vanish; disappear
loss; disappearance; etc.
flood or spring tide
approach; come near to
gain advantage over
profit; be of advantage to
profit
addition; advantage; gain; increase; interest;
profit
gain; profit; advantage
take sides; be partial
quarrel; altercate
fight; wrestle; make war; contend in battle;
wage war
288
e.g. ebí tọgụ sú ̣ọ
‘become a good
boy’; telimó ̣ḅọ sú ̣ọ
‘become a teacher’
sụọ2
sụọ3
v.t.
v.t.
sụọmó2̣
dá sụọmó ̣
v.t.
v.p.
sụọ4
v.t.
sụọ5
v.t.
sụọ6
v.i.
fester; gather (pus); develop as purulent
swelling (of wound); hence
be among, with, in the number of;
sụọ7
v.i.
(of wound) be received;
sụọ8
sụọ9
sụọmó3̣
sụọmó4̣
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
sú ̣rụ
a.
sú ̣rụ
sú ̣rụ
sụrú ̣
sụrụmó ̣
sụsa
sụsú ̣mọ
sụsụmó ̣
sú ̣ụ
sú ̣ụ
sú ̣ụn
sú ̣ụn
v.i.
n.
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
sú ̣ụn
sú ̣ụnsú ̣ụn
sú ̣ụnsú ̣ụn
n.
a.
n.
set; sink below horizon (as sun, moon, etc.)
go to bed; fall asleep
patch up a leak in a thatch roof
the hairless portions on the head on either side
of the forehead
not straight; oblique; declining from the
vertical or horizontal; slanting; diverging from
straight line or course
slant; slope
slant; slope
slant; slope; diverge from line
slantingly; obliquely
browbeat; bully; chide
stretch forth
move continuously on water (cf. súu, só ̣ịịn)
continuous movement on water
straight; without bend or curve
stretch (especially of muscles after sleeping,
etc., by extending limbs, etc., in various
directions); lie; lay to rest
stretching
stretchy
stretchiness
attend; be present at (school, meeting, etc.)
join, become a member; initiate into (of club,
etc.);
let in
receive in; take in; admit; allow entrance (into
club, etc.)
lodge; reside; put up; be contained in (of
stranger);
hence ogbo sụọ
e.g. ịní warị
sụọ
̣
‘lodges in my
house’
ịmá sụọ ‘gather
pus’
e.g. ó ka sụọ ‘he is
also among them’
e.g. ịnọ í ghọ
sụọté ̣
̣
‘I have received a
wound’
T.
tá
tá2
tá2
táan
táan2
táan ḅo
táan mu
táan paga
táan sụọ
ḅịḅị táan
n.f.
excl.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
p
wife; consort; woman married to a husband
shout to drive away animal
drive away thus
receive; get; bear up against
be gathered together
be gathered up
be gathered on to (place)
be gathered out
be gathered in
receive blame:
289
e.g. ó ḅịḅị táanté ̣
‘he has received a
scolding’
loló táan
táatáa
táatáa
taḅá1
taḅá2
taḅ’ára
taḅ’ówei
tabásanị
̣̣
taḅátọgụ
táḅụ
taḅú ̣
taḅụ-ébiaburu
tadá
tada-óngu
tada-ówei
oputada-óngu
oputada-ówei
tafáa
tafáa
tafáamọ
táfilíi
táfilíimọ
tafịlị
tafulamó ̣
táị
v.p.
n. &
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
n.f.
n.m.
n.
cr
n.m.f
.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
fo
a. &
n.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.m.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
int.
bear up against anger
expression to drive animal away
say such word
lap; lick
occurs in;
daughter-in-law
son-in-law
edible peppers and capsicums in general
child of daughter-in-law
be soaked, immersed, dipped, steeped
dip; immerse; soak in liquid; steep
soaked cassava
grandsire (paternal)
grandsires
forefather; grandfather
ancestors
great-grandfather
plump lightly on water
light plump on water
with a light plump
plump (more of legs)
plumply
from frame for mounting cannon
flatter; overpraise
what (are these?);
takaláa
takaláamọ
takaráa
takaráamọ
tákatáka
tákatákamọ
tákelée
tákelée
tákeléemọ
takeletakelé,
tákeletakele
takeletakelémọ
tákị
takí1̣
takí2̣
tákparáa
tála
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
slip; lose balance
with loss of balance; with a slip
stand out smartly
smartly (of standing)
speedy (of run); rapid
speedily; rapidly
tottering
totter; be on the point of falling
totteringly
unrhythmical
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
talá1
v.t.
unrhythmically
tie cloth sideways in special manner;
hook; pluck (something) with hooked material
pilfer; steal
gawky; lanky; skinny
trip; make false step; stumble; partially fall,
from catching or striking foot
trip; (of person or obstacle) cause (person to
stumble by entangling or suddenly arresting
his feet
290
e.g. má táị? ‘what
are these?’
e.g. ḅité ̣ tákị
talámọ
talá2
tala
adv.
v.t.
n.
talágị
talágịmọ
talágịtalágị1
talágịtalágịmọ1
talágịtalágị2
talágịtalágịmọ2
talála
találamọ
talalá
talatalá
talatalámọ
tamá1
tamádụ
tama-éfẹrụ
̣
2
tamá
ḍụẹị tama
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
n.
v.i.
subj.
+ v.i.
v.i.
n.
n.
tamá3
tamụnọ
tan2
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
tan ḅo
tan mu
tan pagamó ̣
tan sín
tan sụọmó ̣
tanyaí ̣
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
n.pl.
tánanáa
tánanáamọ
tandá1
a.
adv.
v.t.
tandá2
n.
tándaráa
v.i.
tamụnọ ebí
tamụnọ-ebí
tamụnọ-ené
tamụnọ seí
tamụnọseí
tamụnọ tọlọmó ̣
tamụnọtọlọmó ̣
tan1
t
trippingly
catch distant or floating object with long stick
tree sp.; bark is used to liven up palm wine
Sacoglottis
gabonensis
(Humiriaceae)
slip; lose balance
with loss of balance; with a slip
unrhythmical
unrhythmically
stagger; totter
staggeringly
droop; hang loosely (e.g. of cloth)
droopingly
make droop; loosen
lie scattered or sporadically
sporadically; scatteringly
northern
northern side
northern wind
smell
emit smell (of corpse)
tr
tr
lurch; stagger; stumble suddenly
lurch; stagger; stumble
soul; manes; deified souls of departed
ancestors; shade of departed person, as object
of reverence
have good luck
good luck
Sunday
have bad luck, hard luck
bad luck; hard luck
make sacrifice to soul
sacrifice to soul
chip; trip up (of foot); e.g. ḅụọ tán
wrestling trick; chip
clear (rubbish; gather; pick up (fallen fruits
from ground); carry
gather, pick, carry in
gather, carry to (place or people)
gather, carry out
gather, carry off
gather, carry in
litter; rubbish; compost; muck; farm yard
manure
wide (of unfurling)
widely
get burning coals from a fireplace
shrine; room of penates in a house; part of
house kept sacred for a deity
swagger; swank; walk like a superior among
inferiors; show self-confidence or selfsatisfaction by gait
291
(in ḅege tamá)
hence fịní tanda,
̣
angị tandá
tándaráamọ
tandaráatandaráa
tandí ̣
tandíye
̣
tangbalá
tángbaláa
tángbaláamọ
tángiríi
tángirímọ
tapúu
tapúumọ
tapú ̣ụ
tapú ̣ụmọ
tárangíi
tárangíimọ
tárị
tarí1̣
taríạ
tarí2̣
taríya
̣
tarịmó ̣
tásịgá
tásịgá
tásịgá
tasíị̣
tasíịmọ
̣
tatá
tatágbogbósi
táu
táumọ
taú1̣
taú2̣
tawaíṇ
téḅi
tée
téemọ
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
v.t.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
swank; swagger; bluff
swaggeringly
same as above
n.
a.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
excl.
v.t.
& i.
excl.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
t
mi
dc
ascend; climb; mount
ladder; steps
burnish; brush
in a lanky manner
plump; fat; full; rounded
plumply
snap; break with heavy sharp crack
snap; sharp crack
with a snap
snap; break with light crack
snap; light crack
with a snap
oversized (of cloth); sizable
sizably
be blest; be revered
bless; invoke God’s favour on; consecrate;
make holy; pronounce words that bring
supernatural favour upon (of father, priest,
etc.)
blessing; bestowal of divine favour
blessed; revered
A. love; hold dear; bear love to; be fond of
love; warm affection; fondness
be in love with one another
love for one another
B. excite strong desire; affect strongly; attract;
appeal; like to; be pleasing to; feel attracted
by
allure; charm; entice; lure; enchant; fascinate
tree sp. and its seeds;
rattles obtained from the seeds
dance with rattles tied to the feet of dancers
snap; sharp crack
with a snap
expression urging a small child to try and
walk
say such word; begin to walk (of small child);
pull to feet
expression meaning ‘may it not happen’
thud; fall with low dull sound
thud
with a thud
dampen; moisten; put in liquid lightly
grandchildren
tree sp. and fruit
bask in (sun); warm oneself at (fire)
swift; fleet; rapid
swiftly; rapidly
292
tefelemó ̣
téi
téiḅaị téiḅaị
téigbolo
téinẹ
téin
teín1
teín2
v.t.
excl.
pron.
n.
thingamy; thingumbob; thingummy; what-doyou-call-it
had I known; what struck (me)?
why not?
n.
excl.
p.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
teíntụáye
teín3
téintéin
teín4
tekéke
tekéke
n.m.f
.
n.
v.t.
a.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
tekékemọ
tékele
tékele
tekelé
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
tekelé ḅa
tekelé kasí ̣
tekelémọ
tekelepánị
tekelé pụrá
tekeléye
tékerée
tekerémọ
téketéke
v.p.
v.p.
v.t.
n.m.
v.p.
n.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
téketékemọ
tekí
adv.
a.
v.i.
teíntụáḅọ
flatter; overpraise
what?
tekímọ
tekimó ̣
tele
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.m.
téletéle
téletélemọ
telímọ
a.
adv.
v.i.
be exploded; be stained
fire; explode; detonate; shoot; discharge gun
inject; drive liquid into body; sting (as bee,
wasp); inoculate
injector; inoculator
injection; inoculation
spot; mark, stain, with spots
spotted; pied
fillip; flick; flip
unsteady; insecure
be on the point of falling:
to
m
unsteadily; insecurely
be hung; be hanged
hanging; downward droop
hang; suspend; attach loosely (to hook or
other object above)
hang, suspend on gibbet
crucify
hang on to
bucket; pail
carry on pole over shoulder
hanger
short; not long (especially clothes and dress)
shorten; curtail
totter; walk unsteadily and fast (especially of
child learning to walk, or somebody
staggering)
totteringly
proud; boastful
be proud; boast; brag of or about; extol
oneself; vaunt
pride; vainglorious statement
proudly; boastfully
make to brag or boast
chimpanzee, ‘gorilla’; ape
sporadic; scattered; fallen wide apart
sporadically
be taught, instructed, advised, directed,
educated, disciplined
293
e.g. ó ẹkị tekeké
wọrí ‘he
̣ placed it
insecurely’
Pan troglodytes
(probably West
African
chimpanzee, P. t.
verus)
telimó1̣
telimó ̣ḅọ
telimó ̣pọgọ
telimó ̣ye
telimó2̣
témi
temí1
temí2
tendeḅaḅió
tendeḅaḅioyaí ̣
ténderáa
ténderáamọ
tendu
ténenáa
ténenáamọ
tenenée
tenenéemọ
mịé ̣ tenenéemọ
téngelée
téngeléemọ
tengí
tengi-ára
téperetépere
téperetéperemọ
térerée
téreréemọ
téri
teri
v.t.
n.
n.m.f
.
n.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.pl.
a.
adv.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a. &
n.
n.f.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
admonish; advise; educate; instruct; teach;
discipline; direct; guide; (vulgarly) receive
instruction; learn
teaching
teacher; adviser; instructor; preceptor; tutor
la
advice; admonition; counsel; instruction
lesson; instruction; teaching; training; culture
dandle child on knees or in arms
be pierced, stabbed, pricked
pierce; prick; spike; stab
beat; pound; crush with pestle
armpit
hairs in armpit
buoyant
buoyantly
estuary or branch of creek
broad-brimmed (of hat)
in a broadly-brimmed way
start from sleep
with a start
startle
swollen; distended
become distended; swell out
maternal grandparent
grandmother
unsteady; tottering
stagger; stand unsteadily; totter
staggeringly; unsteadily
light
feel or look light
lightly
be worn; be put on
crown; put on (as hat); cover; put ridgemat or
ridging on roof of house; wear
sixty
sixtieth
in the sixtieth place
otter sp.
teu
num.
a.
adv.
n.m.
-tẹ
suf.
suffix used to form perfect tense of verbs:
tẹḅẹmó ̣
tẹḅụ
v.t.
a.
v.i.
pet a child; caress
laden; loaded; low (land)
reach strain-bearing capacity (of loaded canoe
or boat)
capacity (for load)
in a loaded way
tesi
tesikaramọ
tẹḅụmó1̣
n.
adv.
m
(pl. telimọ-óngu)
294
(pl. tengi-óngu)
African clawless
otter (Cape clawless
otter), Aonyx
capensis, and spotnecked otter, Lutra
maculicollis
e.g. mu ‘go’, muté ̣
‘has gone’
tẹḅụmó2̣
tẹị1
v.t.
v.i.
tẹị2
n.
v.i.
tẹị3
v.t.
tẹíṇ 1
tẹịnmó ̣
tẹịnmọ-íboro
tẹíṇ 2
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
tẹínḅara
̣
tẹịnmó ̣ḅaraghọ
n.
adv.
tẹínyaị
̣
ḅarátẹíṇ
mịé ̣ tẹịnmó ̣
tẹké ̣
tékẹẹ
̣
n.pl.
a.
v.p.
v.t.
n.
a.
tékẹẹmọ
̣
tékẹré
ẹ̣
̣
adv.
a.
tékẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
tékụré
ẹ̣
̣
adv.
a.
tékụré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
tẹlẹgú ̣tẹlẹgụ
tẹlẹgú ̣tẹlẹgụmọ
télụ
̣
tẹlụ
témẹ
̣
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
tẹmẹ1
v.t.
tẹmẹ-ayé
tẹmẹḅó ̣
tẹmẹ irí
tẹmẹ2
n.pl.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
n.
tẹmẹḍigiyé
tẹmẹḍụayé
tẹmẹ fie
tẹmẹfụlá
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
fg
cause to strain
migrate; move from one place to another;
move slowly (as snail); flit; pass lightly
migration; move; change of abode
be declared not guilty; be free from blame; be
acquitted, exculpated, exonerated, discharged,
released
win in certain games (as ludo, igboun, agú ̣ḅa,
etc.)
drift (e.g. of canoe); glide
cause to drift
drift-net
be more; be most; (used as equivalent to
English -er, -est):
state of being much
in particular; particularly; especially; mainly;
mostly
state of being much or many
stronger; wealthier
make more; increase
appeal; beg; entreat; pray
appeal; entreaty; prayer
aloft; high up; upward; distant; specified
distance from
upwards; distantly
short; of small length (of skirts and cut length
of cloth); undersized
shortly (cut, of cloth)
short; of small stature; not tall (of human
beings); puny; undersized
shortly (of build)
intricate; involved
intricately
emerge from egg
hatch
be created, shaped, formed, constructed,
fashioned, modelled, drawn, moulded, minted,
coined (of money)
create; shape; form; construct; fashion; model;
mould; draw; mint; coin (money)
creatures; created things; creation
creator; one who creates
tr
miscreate
spirit; ghost; image; apparition; shadow;
wraith
mirror; looking-glass
salvation; saving of the soul
resound from a distance
saliva
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e.g. ḍụḅá ‘be big’,
ḍụḅá tẹíṇ ‘be
bigger’; tịḅịfí ̣
‘stubborn’, tịḅịfí ̣
tẹíṇ ‘be more
stubborn’
Ebítẹmẹ
Seítẹmẹ
Tọntọntẹmé ̣
tẹmụtẹmú ̣
p.n.
p.n.
n.
a.
v.i.
Good Spirit; Holy Ghost
Bad Spirit; the devil
Holy Spirit; Holy Ghost
slow (in speech)
drawl; speak with indolent or affected
slowness
drawl; slow utterance
drawlingly
lap; thigh; secondary prop-roots of certain
plants:
tẹmụtẹmú ̣mọ
tẹndé ̣
n.
adv.
n.
tẹndé-ḅịlanẹngị
̣
n.m.
al
[small bat-like creature] galago spp.
tẹndẹ-ímgba
tẹngẹlé ̣
n.
v.t.
& n.
v.p.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
bp
thigh bone; femur
tickle
ḅerí tẹngẹlẹ
ḅerítẹngẹlẹyé
téngẹlé
ẹ̣
̣
téngẹlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
tẹrẹ1
tẹrẹ2
térẹngí
ị̣
̣
térẹngí
ịmọ
̣
̣
tésịị
̣
tésịịmọ
̣
tẹtẹmó ̣
tíi
tíimọ
tikoní
tíkoróo
tíkoróomọ
tíkpaa
tíkpaamọ
tikpáin
tikpáinmọ
tíkpasíi
tíkpasíimọ
tíkpoo
tíkpoomọ
tikpóun
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
poke ear with feather or stick
tickler
slightly swollen
distend; swell out slightly
in a swollen condition
support; keep from falling
support
before
oversized; sizable (cloth)
sizably
dwarfish
dwarfishly
caress; pet
caress; petting
rush; run precipitately
rush; precipitate run
with a rush
praise; commend the merits of (person, thing)
short; curt
shortly; curtly
plump; corpulent
plumply
plop; drop heavily in water
sound as of heavy object dropping into water
without splash; plop
with a plop
corpulent; bulky; fat
plumply
plump; bulky; corpulent
plumply
plop
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e.g. angala tẹndé ̣
‘mangrove proproot’; ilé tẹndẹ
‘Uapaca prop-root’
Allen’s squirrel
galago (Allen’s
galago), Galago
alleni, and
Demidoff’s galago
(dwarf galago),
Galagoides
demidoff
(short for aní tẹrẹ)
̣
tikpóunmọ
tímbalíi
tímbalíimọ
timí1
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
timi1
timíḅara
timi-ebí
timi fá
timifá
ebítimi
seítimi
n.
n.
phr.
phr.
phr.
v.p.
aux.v
.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
timi2
timi fí ̣
tíngaláa
tíngaláa
tíngaláamọ
tíni
típaa
típaamọ
típasíi
típasíimọ
tirí1
n.
v.p.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
tirí tụa
tirí2
v.p.
n.
tirí3
n.
tirí4
polotirí
tirí ḅa
n.
n.
v.p.
tiríḅa
tiri tịẹ
n.
v.p.
tirí tọlọmọ
v.p.
ḍụẹị tirí paga
v.p.
ḍụẹịtirípaga
tirigó
n.
n.
timíyọ
aní ḅ
̣ ara timí
ín
̣ a timíi
mí ḅ
̣ ara timí
tịẹ timí
timí2
with a plop
plump; corpulent
plumply
abide; stay; remain; continue; dwell; stand
firm; sit; exist; wait
abidance; continuance; existence
seat; dwelling-place
(it) was like that
abide with me! stay with me!
(it) was like this
stand firm or still
be; could; should; would have; will:
fg
tr
condition; living
living condition
affluence
have no living
paucity; being without means
good living; affluence
bad living; penury; destitution; poverty;
paucity
advance; payment beforehand
receive advance
swollen; distended
distend; swell out
tin
corpulent; bulky; plump
plumply
plump; bulky
plumply
canopy; overhanging shelter; expanse covered
by a spreading tree or a cast-net;
form a canopy
heap; group of things lying one on another;
pair; set
length of hook and line used for fishing at a
time; boulter; length of dragnet or driftnet:
arena; an open space
open field
said of moon when it does not set but remains
on horizon before dawn; also of secret love or
news when it is no longer a secret
such state of moon or secret
be left alone in an arena; (of card game) have
no winner
prepare arena for play; said of moon when it
is preparing to rise and darkness starts to clear
perform the formal "laying-out in state" of a
corpse in a public square for citizens to pay
their last respects
such formal laying-out of a corpse
canopy; an open expanse of water or land at
297
e.g. mu timí ‘be
going’
<English
hence ịgbó ̣ tiri
hence ḍaye tiri;
ibóro tiri
tirigó nyana
tirigó tụa
tírikpíi
tírikpíimọ
tiro
v.p.
v.p.
a.
adv.
n.
títi
tití
v.i.
v.t.
tiye
n.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
tiyekugú
n.m.
tịḅị1
v.i.
tịḅịḅó ̣
n.m.f
.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
n.pl.
v.p.
titimó ̣
tiyán
tiyánmọ
tiyanmó ̣
tíye
tịḅịmó1̣
tịḅịmó2̣
tịḅị2
tịḅị-anumó
tịḅị asaḅá
tịḅị dáa
n.
n.
n.m.f
.
v.p.
tịḅịdú ̣
tịḅịdú ̣ nó ̣
tịḅịdụnó ̣
tịḅị ḍugómọ
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
tịḅịḍugómọ
n.
tịḅị-ekeké
tịḅịfá
tịḅị fangá
tịḅịfanga-erí
tịḅị fẹngú ̣
tịḅịfí ̣
n.
a.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
tịḅịḅẹlẹú ̣
tịḅịḅió
tịḅịḅó ̣
po
bp
bp
the point where streams or roads meet; an
expanse at a confluence or conflux
have an expanse
develop an expanse
massy; weighty
in a massy way
kohl; ground black substance used by women
to paint eyelids
strike against, upon
A. beat; flog; hit
B. butt; gore; push with head
butt(ing); goring
compress, squeeze together; pacify
choke; suffocate
suffocation; asphyxia
suffocatingly
choke; asphyxiate; suffocate
be scattered, dispersed, few; lessen
scattering
collect wine from palm tree with a special pot
attached to the top
special pot left on top for collecting wine that
trickles out of the palm tree
go off in pairs, pair; unite in love or marriage;
be arranged in pairs
partner; the other member of a pair
pair; arrange in pairs; pair off; put two by two
compare; liken
A. head; anterior part of body
hairs (on head)
pass overhead (of sun); reach afternoon;
(colloq.) pass over a senior person to act in a
matter; act beyond one’s powers
top of the head
brain; knowledge
head; headman; leader; chief; principal; ruler;
master
head; lead; be, form the head, or be at the
head of
head side (of bed, etc.)
have headache
headache
accuse; indict; charge:
sake of; for the sake of; because of; owing to;
in the interest of; out of consideration for; in
order that;
skull; cranium
headless; acephalous; unsuccessful
twist hair with thread
black thread for twisting hair
(of sun) be past meridian or zenith
saucy; cheeky; heady; impetuous; impudent;
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e.g. ye ékị
̣ ó tịḅị
ḍugómọ
e.g. ịní tịḅịḍugómọ
̣
tịḅịfí ̣
n.
tịḅịfịḅará
adv.
tịḅịfịnaḅịté ̣
tịḅịfịnaweí
tịḅị gbámọ
n.m.
n.m.
v.p.
tịḅịgó ̣
tịḅị ísị̣
tịḅị-ísị̣
tịḅịkiriebimó ̣
tịḅị kịrí ̣
tịḅịkịrí ̣
tịḅịkịrịḅó ̣
tịḅị kpó ̣
tịḅịkpọyé
tịḅịkpó ̣
tịḅịkurukurú
tịḅị lá
tịḅịlá
tịḅịlá
tịḅịlẹyé
tịḅị na otumó ná
tịḅịnẹngí ̣
tịḅịnẹngịḅó ̣
tịḅịnó ̣
tịḅị nyanámọ
tịḅị nyọngọmó ̣ prí ̣
tịḅị-okó
tịḅị-okpokpó
tịḅị-onongoró
tịḅịpaga
tịḅịpagaghá
tịḅịpitiyé
tịḅị prí ̣
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.m.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
n.
n.p.
a.
n.m.f
.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.m.
a.
a.
n.
v.p.
tịḅị sín prí ̣
tịḅịsínpríye
̣
tịḅị sogió
tịḅịsogioweí
tịḅị tịẹmó ̣
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.m.
v.p.
tịḅịtịẹmọḅó ̣
n.m.f
.
n.
tịḅịtịẹmọyé
dr
dr
dr
d
bp
bp
ms
insolent; insulting; insubordinate; disobedient;
impertinent; badly behaved; naughty;
discourteous; rude; uncivil
discourtesy; disrespect; disobedience;
cheekiness; headiness; impertinence;
impetuosity; impetuousness; impudence;
insolence; naughtiness; rudeness; incivility;
sauciness
saucily; headily; cheekily; impetuously;
impudently; insolently; naughtily; rudely;
impertinently
head-tie
head-tie
accuse; indict; charge; be accused or charged
with
head side (of bed, etc.)
grow bald or hairless
alopecia; baldness
dandruff; scurf
cut hair
haircut
barber; hairdresser
tie head (with cloth)
head-band
headstrong
precipitateness
come of age; reach maturity
mature
pubescence; arrival at puberty or maturity
capitation, poll tax
head and tail, the essence of a matter
of higher status
senior
headache
monopolize
bow down to
skull; cranium
skull; cranium
masquerade type with very tall head
successful
unsuccessful
hairpin
give up oneself to chief or deity, for safekeeping
honour; respect highly; confer dignity upon
respect
raise head; pillow
pillow
substitute; put in exchange for; replace with
another
substitute (person)
substitute (thing)
299
tịḅịtongú
tịḅịtó ̣ọn
tịḅịtó ̣ọngha
tịḅịyó ̣
ḍịétịḅị
̣
gbọrịtịḅí ̣
n.
a.
a.
n.
n.
adv.
kalátịḅịanumo
kịẹrịtịḅí ̣
kịẹrịtịḅí ̣
mádụtịḅị-obí
tịḅị2
n.
n.
adv.
n.m.
bp
s
occiput; back of head
successful
unsuccessful
headquarters; head place
share; portion
at this moment; at once; right now; exactly;
absolutely; positively; precisely; entirely;
altogether; outright; quite
hair style
one’s self alone
alone
amphisbaenid snake
B. life:
tịḅị2
C. individual:
tịḅị2
D. top; knobbed end of nail; maturated part of
boil; upper end of bed, etc.; climax
E. head of fruit or tobacco
F. chapter; main division of a book; hence
tịḅị2
tịḅị2
pp
-tịḅị
suf.
suffix equivalent to English -ful or -lead:
tịẹ1
v.i.
& t.
tịẹ1
n.
tịẹḅá
tịẹkirí
n.f.
n.
tịẹ kụró ̣
tịémọ
̣ 1
v.p.
v.t.
stand; maintain upright position; assume
stationary position; be situated; alight; perch;
settle; come to earth from the air; stop; cease
functioning
stand; cessation from motion or progress;
standing
the god of standing
specified situation or rank; specified size or
height; standard; degree of excellence or
efficiency, required for particular purpose
stand fast; stand firm
move to and remain in specified position
tịémọ
̣ 2
tịẹmó1̣
tịẹmó2̣
v.t.
v.t.
v.t.
tịẹmó3̣
v.t.
stand before (someone)
set upright; erect; bristle (hair)
stop doing; bring to an end; bar; hinder; make
a halt or pause; brake
provide at one’s expense;
300
= dú ̣tịḅịdú ̣tịḅị
e.g. ó tịḅị na sụó ̣
‘he entered with his
head’ (i.e. he lost
his life in the
enterprise)
e.g.gbọrịḅọ tịḅí ̣
‘per head, every
individual’
tịtarị tịḅí ‘first
̣
chapter’
e.g. ẹfẹrẹtịḅí ̣
‘plateful’;
ịngịasítịḅị
̣
‘spoonful’; arụtịḅí ̣
‘canoe-load’
e.g. anga tịémọ
̣
‘stand to one side;
stand aside’; tongú
tịémọ
̣ ‘stand back’;
tọrú ̣gọ or ḅẹlẹụ
tịémọ
̣ ‘stand in
front’
hence ituka tịẹmọ
e.g. ó irú tịẹmọ wa
prí ‘he
̣ stood us
drinks’
tịẹmó ̣tịẹmó ̣
tịẹmọndịyé
tịẹ prí ̣
a. &
v.i.
n.
v.p.
(be) prescient
tr
apparition; ghost
sponsor; stand surety for; be god-father or
god-mother to
sponsor; surety; god-father or god-mother
kekíamọ tịẹ
koro tịé ̣
sigímọ tịẹ
sou tịẹ
tịẹ2
tịẹ2
tịẹ tó ̣n
tịẹ3
kalátịẹ
opútịẹ
tíkịtí
̣ kị
̣
n.m.f
.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
a.
stand near
stand down
stand aloof, away, clear, aside
stand up; arise
of specified height; tall
height; size; dimensions; magnitude;
measure height
cock (of gun)
half-cock
full-cock
whooping; hence
tíkọló
̣
̣ọ
tíkọló
̣
̣ọmọ
tíkpọlí
̣
̣
tịkpó ̣ụ
tịkpó ̣ụ
tịkpó ̣ụnmọ
tíṇ 1
tíṇ 1
tíṇ irí
ịrẹ tíṇ
ịrẹtíṇ
tíṇ 2
tịn
ḍigitịn
a.
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
short; not tall or long
shortly
masquerade type
plop (lightly)
light plop
with a light plop
call; invite; mention; name
call, invitation
misname; call by wrong name
christen
christening
haul; pull; drag; draw
plant, tree, in general
mahogany tree
tịnḅerí
tịnḅirí
tínẹ
̣ 1
tínẹ
̣ 2
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
nametịnẹyé
tịnẹ
tịnọ
ẹngẹtịnó ̣
n.
v.t.
n.
n.
ọbọdọgó ̣tịnọ
tíọ̣
tíontí
̣ ọn
̣
tíontí
̣ ọn
̣
tíontí
̣ ọn
̣
tíọntí
̣ ọnmọ
̣
típaa
̣
típaa
̣
típaamọ
̣
n.
int.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
tịẹpríḅọ
̣
ms
t
t
tp
tp
t
t
t
leaf of plant
plant stem; bole; girth; trunk; haulm; stalk
be reeved, threaded, skewered
fathoms of twine attaching the float to the
sinker and weight on a hook and line
nerve; sinew, tendon
thread; reeve; skewer
tree sp. yielding a spice called ẹngẹ
type of above tree with durable wood and
good spice
type with soft wood and inferior spice
where?
anxious; earnestly desirous
be anxious or desirous
anxiety; solicitous desire
anxiously
full to the brim; replete; hence bein tịpa
be replete
fully
301
e.g. tịẹkirí
(see kítịkí
̣ tị)
̣
tíkịtí
̣ kị
̣ ọlọ
‘whooping cough’
Khaya ivorensis A.
Chev. (Meliaceae)
tịpú ̣ụ
tịpú ̣ụmọ
tịra
v.i.
adv.
a.
snip; cut with small quick strokes
with a snip
three (when used for qualifying):
tịraị
tịraịkaramó ̣
num.
a.
three (in counting)
third;
thirdly
massy; solid; weighty
solidly; weightily
first; former; primary
the very first
from the beginning
tóḅi
tóforóo
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.p
.
n.
n.
v.t.
a.
adv.
excl.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
tóguru
n.
v.i.
togurú
togurú dẹgẹ
n.
v.t.
v.p.
togurúsịnya
n.
gún togurú
toí
v.p.
v.i.
tírịkpí
ị̣
̣
tírịkpí
ịmọ
̣
̣
tịtarị
tịtarịḅẹlẹú ̣
tịtarị koromí g̣ họ
tịtarị-ofonipán
tịtarịpagá
tịté ̣
tịtí ̣
tịtímọ
̣
tíyọ
̣
bp
toí kọn
toítiri
toítiri toí
kụrọtoí
tokímọ
tókoróo
tologútologu
tólogúu
tolótolo
tólu
tólughá
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
& t.
n.
a.
a.
a.
n.m.
v.i.
a.
da
e.g. á tịraị ékí
̣
̣ ‘I
took three’
first cockcrow
head
excuse
dumpy; short and stout
in a dumpy manner
see tíọ̣
bask in (sun); warm oneself at fire
mortify (of corpse); be affected by gangrene
or necrosis
mortification; necrosis
make mouth movement while chewing
something
chewing; mastication
chew; grind with teeth; masticate; triturate
grind to fine powder; masticate thoroughly;
triturate
veins seen moving when the parietal muscles
are chewing
chew the cud; ruminate
engage in fun, games, sport; play; frisk;
gambol
fun; sport; amusement; jocularity; drollery;
game; play; jest; lark; frolic; spree; mirth;
merriment; frisk; gambol
stage a play
picnic
picnic; take part in picnic
athletics
stand on tiptoe
n.
e.g. tịra kịmí ‘three
̣
people’; tịra ọndé ̣
= 3(400) = 1200;
tịra sí sixty
standing on tiptoe
long-legged (of seat)
knock-kneed
long-legged; leggy; lanky
turkey
have a hole; be punctured, pierced, pricked
not leaking; not having developed a hole
302
(see also téḅi)
= kóḅirikóḅiri
tólu koro
tólu sụọ
tóluyọ
tolu1
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.i.
n.
tolughá
tolumó ̣ ḍigí
v.i.
v.p.
tolumó ̣ prí ̣
ḍugó tolu
yọ tolúmọ
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
tolu2
tolu3
v.t.
v.t.
n.
a.
n.
n.m.
tolughá
tomátos(i)
tomi
tomi
tominí
tomini-amákiri
tomini-amákiri
tominíkiri
tominíkiri
tominíkiriḅó ̣
tóndio
tondió
tondoḅaḅió
tongú
tongúdụ
tongú wagímọ
̣
ḅarátongu
ḅụọtongú
ọbú ̣tongu
tịḅịtongú
t’óngu
toó
toó
tootó
tootó
topíi
topíimọ
topíitopíi
topíitopíimọ
tororíi
n.m.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.
a.
n.
a.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
excl.
pron.
excl.
v.i.
excl.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
cr
al
penetrate and pass through
penetrate through or into
puncture; pricked hole
issue; appear; emerge; spring, come out; get
through
issue; appearance; emergence; mouth of river;
outlet
(it) is not through
peep; peer; look through narrow aperture;
peep out; look furtively
give furtively or through a narrow passage
pass through or by
issue forth or out to (a place, house, river,
road, etc.)
make a hole; prick; pierce; puncture; perforate
sharpen a new tool initially
such initial sharpening
blunt; without edge; unsharpened
tomato
African palm civer (two-spot palm civet)
[small animal which steals palm-wine]
p
p
drunkard
folks; mankind; humanity; humankind; people
p
world of living men or human beings
worldly
world of living men
worldly
human being
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
suffer injury or pain (of existing wound)
hurt; wound (feelings or existing wounds)
armpit
back; behind; rear
behind; rear; hindermost part
turn or reverse backwards
elbow
heel
backside; posterior
occiput; back of head
which people?
abusive shout
shout thus
abusive shout
shout thus
drip; drop; trickle
with a drip or trickle
drip continuously
drip continuously
drip; drop; trickle
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<English
Nandinia binotata.
Also recorded as
otome, tomí
(pl. tominíkiriongú)
(see tendeḅaḅió)
(= tọ-óngu)
tororíimọ
tororíitororíi
tórotóro
tórotóro
tóun
tóun
toún
tounmó ̣
wagịmó ̣ toún
wagí` tounmó ̣
tó ̣
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
excl.
adv.
with a trickle
drip continuously
drip-drop; drip persistently
persistent dripping
bend; stoop; bow
bending; bow; stooping
bend; bow; invert; turn upside down
cause to bend; bow
turn upside down
turn upside down
how? what? when? where? which? See
following:
tó ̣gụ
child; babe; baby;
kala tó ̣gụ
tó ̣ị
tó ̣ị
tó ̣ịmọ
tó ̣ịtó ̣ị
tó ̣ịtó ̣ị
tó ̣ịn1
tó ̣ịn1
tó ̣ịnmọ1
tó ̣ịntó ̣ịn1
n.m.f
.
n.p.
n.m.f
.
n.p.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
tó ̣ịntó ̣ịnmọ
tó ̣ịn2
n.
adv.
v.i.
tó ̣ịnmọ2
tó ̣kịị
tó ̣kịị
tó ̣kịịmọ
tọkímọ
̣
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
tọkịní ̣
tó ̣kịtó ̣kị
tó ̣kịtó ̣kị
tọkó ̣
tó ̣kọọ
tó ̣kọọmọ
tó ̣kọró ̣ọ
tó ̣kọró ̣ọmọ
tọkọró ̣ọ
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
tọló ̣
tọlọlí ̣
tọlọlímọ
̣
v.t.
a.
adv.
tó ̣gụ kalaí ̣
tó ̣gụkọrịḅó ̣
tó ̣ḅara? how is it?
tó ̣dụ? what part?
where? tọ-ífie?
which time? when?
little child
baby nurse
small child
drip; fall in drops
drip(ping)
in drips or drops
drip persistently
persistent dripping
drip; fall in drops
drip(ping)
in drips or drops
drip persistently; be in drips or drops (of
blood, oil, liquid) all over
continuous drops or dripping
with persistent dripping
alight to earth (froma jump, etc.; set or put
foot lightly on something
lightly; faintly
step lightly continuously
appear first (of moon)
first appearance (of moon)
faintly (of moon)
point to, at; direct attention to; appoint;
nominate
socks; stockings
meddle
meddling
manage; conduct (with tact)
stand aloof, away, apart
aloof
long-legged (of chair)
in a long-legged manner
stray, wander, deviate from the right way
(path, truth)
eat
complete
completely
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<English stocking
tọlọmó1̣
odú tọlọmọ
tọlọmó2̣
tọlú1̣
tọlú2̣
tọlú3̣
v.t.
v.p.
adv.
n.
n. &
a.
n.
tọlú ̣ síin
tó ̣lụtó ̣lụ
tọmbịlí ̣
tọn1
v.p.
a.
n.
v.t.
tọnyé1
tọn1
n.
tọnyé2
n.
c
tọn1
ye tó ̣n prí ̣
tọn
v.p.
v.t.
tọn-ayé
ye tó ̣n
n.pl.
v.p.
tó ̣ndị
ọtó ̣ndịaḅá
tọndí ̣
v.i.
n.m.
v.t.
tó ̣ngható ̣ngha
tọngó1̣
tọngó2̣
tọngó ̣ pẹlẹ
tọngó ̣pẹlẹ
tọngó ̣pẹlẹghá1
tọngó ̣pẹlẹghá2
pẹlẹghatọngó ̣
tó ̣nmọ1
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
n.m.
n.
v.t.
tó ̣nmọyé1
tó ̣nmọ2
n.
v.i.
& t.
n.
v.t.
n.
tó ̣nmọ2
tó ̣nmọ3
tó ̣nmọyé2
i
bp
i
bp
prepare; adjust; dress
be prepared; prepare oneself
appreciably; really; properly; (do) particularly
mesh; interstice of net
single oyster appearing singly on rock or
harder part of mangrove root;
joint; place by which two bones are fitted
together
dislocate; come out of joint
perforated; pitted
tumbler, glass
A. measure; ascertain extent or quantity of
(thing) by comparison with fixed unit or with
object of known size; scale; weigh; estimate
relative value or importance by some
standard; ascertain size and proportion of
(person) for clothes
balance; scale; measure
B. arrange; plan; scheme; design; contrive;
intend; purpose; mean to; have in mind to;
conceive or form in mind; be of opinion;
expect; think (thought)
arrangement; plan; scheme; design; intention;
contrivance
C. order; put in order; regulate; command
thing to be done
regulate or order one’s affairs
forbid; loathe; detest; abominate; regard with
disgust
forbidden things; menses; monthly periods
menstruate; discharge menses or monthly
periods
be kindled; be lit up
glow-worm; firefly
light up; kindle; illuminate; set ablaze;
inflame
several; diverse; sundry; various
trigger (of gun); pendulum (of clock)
penis; prick (vulgar)
circumcise (an organ)
circumcision (of organ)
uncircumcised
centipede
uncircumcised penis
liken; find or point out resemblance in (thing)
to; compare; estimate the similarity of (one
thing with, to, another); contrast; set (two
things, one with another) in opposition, so as
to show their difference
comparison
gesticulate; gesture; give idea as to size, etc.,
by movement of limb or body
gesticulation; gesture
illustrate, make clear, by examples; exemplify
illustration; example
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cf. tọlụ-ímgba
<English
tọntó ̣n
tọntọnyé
tó ̣ọn
a.
n.
v.i.
forbidden; holy; sacred; saint
taboo
imprint shape on; leave impress, imprint,
mark or form on:
tọpíị̣
drip; drop; trickle
tọrọríịmọ
̣
tọrọríịtọrọrí
ị̣
̣
tọrọríịtọrọrí
ịmọ
̣
̣
tó ̣rọró ̣ọ
tó ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
tọrọtọró ̣
tọrọtọró ̣
tọrú1̣
tọrú ̣ ḅa
tọrú ̣ ḍigi mịé ̣
tọrú ̣ḍigimịé ̣
tọrụ ékị
̣ tụá
tọrụ-ékí
̣
̣ mọ
tọrú ̣ féngụ
̣
tọrú ̣féngụ
̣
tọrú ̣ findi
tọrú ̣fíndi1
tọrú ̣fíndi2
tọrú ̣ fụrụmọ
tọrú ̣-gbalịye [?]
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
v.p.
n.
tọrú ̣ghọsụọ
tọrú ̣ghọsụọghá
tọrụ-ígiri
a.
a.
n.
tọrụ-íjaka
̣
tọrụ-íkẹgẹ
̣
tọrụ-ímgbọ
̣
tọrú ̣ kpó ̣
tọrú ̣kpó ̣
tọrú ̣kuḅu
tọrú ̣ kụn
tọrú ̣kụn
tọrú ̣ kụró ̣
tọrú ̣kụró ̣
tọrú ̣kụró ̣
tọrú ̣kụró ̣furu
tọrú ̣kụró ̣furu kọn
tọrú ̣ lọkó ̣
tọrú ̣lọkó ̣
tọrú ̣nungu
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
tọpíịmọ
̣
tọpíịtọpí
ị̣
̣
tọrọríị̣
e.g. ḅụọmí kirímị
̣
ghọ tó ̣ọn ‘the foot
left an impress on
the ground’
drip continuously
drip; drop; trickle
drip continuously
with a continuous drip or trickle
droop; languish; hang down in weariness
droopingly
drip persistently
persistent dripping
A. eye; face
(of wine) intoxicate
be partial
partiality
keep under observation
fine; beautiful; attractive
swoon; reel; be in a whirl
swoon; vertigo; dizziness
open eyes; civilize
civilization
grasping; rapacious
frown; grimace; scowl; wear sullen look
Cyathula prostrata
(Amaranthaceae) =
oḅoriḅolo
bf
bp
bp
bp
bp
bp
satisfactory
unsatisfactory
conjunctiva; mucous membrane of the inner
eyelid
eyelash; cilia
eye-socket bone
eyeball
be bold
boldness
face; forehead to chin
be shy
shyness
be rapacious
rapacious; grasping
rapacity
marauding; piracy; highway robbery
engage in piracy and plundering
be lenient
lenience; leniency
eyebrow
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< ‘eye’ + nungú
‘glance’
tọrụ-ótoin
tọrụ-ó ̣fịrí ̣
tọrụ-ó ̣fịrí ̣
tọrụ-ó ̣pịna
tọrú ̣sara
tọrú ̣sara
tọrú ̣sarasará
tọrú ̣tụayé
tọrú ̣wei
ḍigí tọrú ̣ kụrụkụrú ̣
ḍigítọrú ̣kụrụkụrú ̣
ḍigí tọrú ̣nó ̣
ḍigítọrú ̣nó ̣
ḍigítọrú ̣nó ̣
ḍigí tọrú ̣ sín
n.
a.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.m.
n.
n.m.
v.i.
n.
v.p.
a.
n.
v.p.
ḍigítọrụ
ebitọrú ̣
mindítọrụ
seitọrú ̣
suótọrụ
tọrú2̣
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
tọrú ̣kírị̣
tọrú ̣kírịkí
̣ rị̣
tọrú3̣
kírịtọrú
̣
̣
tọrụ
tọrụḍigiyé
tọrụ gbé ̣
tọrụgbé ̣
tọrụkuḅú
tọrụmindí
tọrú ̣-ogbó
tọrụ otuó
tọrụ-otuó
tọrú ̣gọ
tọrú ̣gọyé
tọrú ̣gọye sín
tọrú ̣gọyesín
tọsí ̣
tra
traị
túḅilíi
túḅilíimọ
túḅo
tuḅo
tuḅo
a.
a.
n.
a.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
a.
num.
a.
adv.
n.
v.t.
n.
tuḅokirí
tuḅo kó ̣n
tuḅokó ̣n
n.
v.p.
n.
bm
s
mt
d
fg
sty or stye (in eye)
rapacious
rapacity
eyelid
social
sociability
grass snake
eyeglass; spectacles
worm in the eye
have mercy upon; be compassionate
compassion
be jealous, envious
envious; jealous
envy; jealousy
overlook
B. surface; side; face; appearance; outward
aspect
appearance
right side (of cloth); outside of garment
surface of water
(of cloth) seamy side; inside of garment
firmament; sky
class; kind; sort; species; type; genus; order;
variety; pattern
different
diverse; varied
method; special form of procedure; order; way
of different kind or method
river; large expanse of water
spyglass; binoculars
pay river dues
payment of river dues
middle of river
river water
middle of river; midstream
make collection of river dues
collection of river dues
front; frontage; facade
scrotitis; orchitis, etc.
circumcise
circumcision
fish-trap
same as tịra
same as tịraị
plump; plumpy; chubby
plumply
well
fix price; bargain
commerce; trade; business; estimate; price;
cost
factory
engage in trade
trade
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tuḅolọkó ̣
tuḅolọkọmó ̣
tuḅo tụá
tuḅoyaí ̣
túḅugúu
túḅugúumọ
tugbé
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
adv.
subj.
+ v.i.
n.
adv.
v.p.
n.pl.
a.
adv.
n.
túgo
tugó
tutóye
tugu1
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
tugu ḅọgó ̣
tugudú ̣
tugu ḍugó
tuguḍugoḅó ̣
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.m.f
.
n.pl.p
ers.
a.
v.p.
a.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
n.
n.
v.p.
a.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.f.
n.f.
n.f.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
v.p.
tuḅo kụró ̣
tuḅokụró ̣
tuḅokụrọmó ̣
tuḅo lọkó ̣
tugughọpagaọwọmá
tugufá1
tugu kóro
tugukó ̣
tugusụọmó ̣
tugu tú ̣a
tugu tụá
irútugu
tugu2
tugu ḍọgí ̣
tugufá2
tugu nimí
tugu3
tugu-amá
tugu-ará
kalátugu
opútugu
tugurumó ̣
tugurumó ̣ bịyán
tugurumó ̣ sín
kọrọ tugurumó ̣
kọrọtugurumó ̣
kọrọtugurumoyé
tukpáa
tukpáamọ
tukpáatukpáa
túkuu
n.
n.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
be dear (in price)
dearness
dearly (of price)
be cheap (in price)
cheapness
cheaply
raise or increase price
brideprice paid by husband; dowry
dull; not bright
dully
stick used in fastening the mouth of ịkọ fish
trap to side screens
be caulked or corked
caulk; cork; stopper
caulk; cork; stopper
bottom; hind-part; base; stump (of tree); root;
end; final or last part
be last; be backward
hind; posterior; situated at the back
follow
follower; disciple
posterity
dr
tr
tr
tr
bottomless; baseless; groundless; unfounded
lag behind; (of liquid) settle
final; last
drawers; knickers; shorts; underwear; pant
go backwards
start the beginning of anything (weaving, etc.)
dregs or lees of wine
meaning; reason; motive
examine; investigate; inquire into; scrutinize
meaningless; (idiomatic) tongue cannot tell
understand; comprehend
spot where an oracle is consulted
village in which an oracle is situated
oracle, regarded as a female deity
oracle at Awka
Aro Long Juju
push; urge; impel
bump
dislodge; push away
push stick to lean against raffia palm for
purposes of climbing and tapping
such pushing of a stick
stick for climbing raffia palm
plump; plunge
with a plunge
splatter continuously
massive; heaped; high (measure)
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numo tún
tun2
tunḅiriḅoloyé
amanyanaḅọtún
tundu
tundutundú
kalátundu
opútundu
túndurúu
túngbo1
túngbomọ
túngbo2
tungbó
tungbómọ
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
n.
n.
a.
n.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
tungbomó1̣
tungbomó2̣
v.t.
v.t.
tunwan
n.
turu
túrukúu
túrukúumọ
tuu
túutúumọ
tuutuú
tuutuúmọ
tuwáin
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a. &
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
tuwáinmọ
tuwein
adv.
n.
tú ̣a1
túà2
v.t.
v.t.
tú ̣aḍirí
tú ̣a3
n.
túkuumọ
túlee
túleemọ
tumbi
tumbiyé
túmbilíi
túmbilíimọ
tumó1̣
tun1
túutúu
dr
dr
la
la
la
f
(filled) to a high degree
buoyant; protruding
buoyantly
punt; quant; beat
punt-pole; quant
plump; plumpy; chubby
plumply
appease; quiet; soothe; pacify; satisfy
chant; sing
chanting; singing
sing a song
hat; outdoor head covering
puggaree
crown
hill; mound; mountain
hilly; mountainous
hill
mountain
high as a mountain
incline; lean back; list (of canoe, etc.); bend
in an inclined way
small screens for damming sides of creek
cause to list or bend; same as tungbomó ̣
be bent or inclined (as result of having been
bent)
cause to incline
careen; turn boat on one side for clearing or
caulking
mullet sp. (‘the large mullet’)
(iron) nail
massive
massively
hoot; toot
hoot(ing); toot(ing)
(become) flatulent, inflated, puffed up, windy
(of belly)
flatulently
make sound as of steam engine
with steaming sound as of engine
hiss; make loud hissing sound as when liquid
is poured on fire or heated object
with a hiss
caulk; cotton or fibre material for stopping
leaks
clothe; put clothes upon; wear; e.g. ḅịté ̣ tú ̣a
snuff; sniff (tobacco); hence
snuff; powdered tobacco for snuffing
occurs in:
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family Mugilidae.
cf. abaraká,
akú ̣rọ,
gbulu, ịdẹgé,̣
mó ̣ngịnị
ḍiri tú ̣a ‘snuff
tobacco’
ó ̣bụ tú ̣a
ó ̣bụtú ̣a
v.p.
n.
tugu tú ̣a
tugutú ̣a
tụá
v.p.
n.
v.t.
back water; go astern; move backwards
going astern; backing water; moving
backwards
move backwards, etc.
going backwards, etc.
A. put (something into);
B. stuff; fill; e.g. stuff cushion with cotton,
etc.
C. add (into something); hence
tụáyọ
n.
ft
addition
D. set fish trap
E. mark (with identification mark);
F. write, register (name in a book);
G. enact; ordain; decree;
H. inflict; lay on (wound);
I. set; join; attach; fix (broken leg);
yọtụaḅó ̣
n.m.f
.
p
adv.
tụámọ
v.t.
tụámọye
tụamó ̣
tụá siín
tụá timị
tụáya
n.
v.t.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
mindí tụa, puló
tụa, fụ tụá ‘add
water, oil, salt’;
nama tụá ‘add
more meat’
e.g. ẹkẹré ̣ tụa,
ibóro tụa, ịkọ tụá
e.g. lelegimó ̣ tụa
hence ḍiri ghọ ịrẹ
tụá
e.g. ologo tụá
‘enact a law’
e.g. ịnọ ékị
̣ tụá
‘inflict wound on’
e.g. ḅụọ tụá ‘set
leg’
bone-setter
J. darn; mend;
K. include, put in, as part of a whole
L. bear; produce (fruit, etc.);
M. with; along with; in company with; in
conjunction with;
tụámọ1
e.g. ẹkị akpá ghọ
tụá ‘put into a bag’
in company; together
N . In derived words and phrases:
tempt or incite to do evil; beguile; delude;
seduce
temptation
put fire; kindle
put off
stay with; nurture; foster
hook or engage one another in the crook of
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hence ḅịté ̣ tụa
hence beinyaị tụá
(equiv. of Eng.
prep.) e.g. o ékị
̣ tụá
ḅo ‘come along
with him; o ékị
̣ tú ̣a
ḅo ‘he brought
along with him; o
ékị
̣ tụá kịéṇ ‘make
him be numbered
with (them)’; o ékị
̣
tuá kịéṇ ‘he
numbered (it) along
with (others)’; etc.
e.g. eín tụámọ fé ̣
‘they bought in
company or
together’
(pl. tụámọyaí)̣
e.g. eín tụáya ḅó
arm;
ḅará tụa
tịḅị tụá
v.p.
v.p.
tịḅịtụá
tugu tụá
tugutụá
tụá2
n.
v.p.
n.
n.
tú ̣ḅara?
tụḅará
int.
n.m.
tú ̣ḅọ
tụḅụrụmó ̣
ḅió tụḅụrụmó ̣
excl.
pron.
n.p.
n.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.p.
tú ̣kẹréẹ̣
tú ̣kẹréẹmọ
̣
tú ̣kịníị̣
tú ̣kịníịmọ
̣
tụkịníyọ
̣
tụkpá
tụkpáde
tụkpáa
tụkpáa
tụkpáamọ
tụkpáatụkpáa
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
n.
n.m.
v.t.
n.
adv.
v.i.
tụkpáatụkpáa
tú ̣kụụ
tú ̣kụụmọ
tú ̣lẹẹ
tú ̣lẹẹmọ
n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
tụléẹtụlé
ẹ̣
̣
tụléẹtụlé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
tú ̣ndụrú ̣ụ
tú ̣ndụrú ̣ụmọ
tụngbá
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
ábangátụngba
ídutụngbá
olútụngba
opurotụngbá
n.
n.
n.
n.
tú ̣ḅọ tú ̣ḅọ ka
tụḅụ
tụḅụr`ụ
assist; help
start the preparation of the head of a
masquerade or the beginning of woven
material, as mat, screen, etc.
start of such preparation
start the head of a net, woollen material, etc.
head of a net, etc.
time
m
How?
antelope sp.; sitatunga
‘they came arm in
arm’
(lit; "put hand")
e.g. mí tụa
‘this
̣
time’; aní tụa
‘that
̣
time’; pí tụa
‘the
̣
other time’; tịtarị
tụá ‘first time’
= tó ̣ḅara
Tragelaphus spekei
[sclater]
who?
i
fr
fr
fp
fp
whoever; whosoever
end, especially of creek;
go against tide
going against tide
stem against tide or current
cause one’s gorge to rise at; sicken; excite
loathing or indignation
short; curt; terse
curtly; tersely
tiny; very small; smallish
in a smallish way
pinch
lamp; light
insect that hovers around light at night
plunge lightly
light plump or plunge
with a sudden plump
splutter; make continuous splashing sound (in
water)
continuous splash or splutter
protrusive
protrusively
protruding; buoyant
buoyantly (of floating body in water or potbellied man)
buoyant; springy
buoyantly
humped; humpy; hunched
with a hump
finger (of plantain or banana); claws or legs
(of crabs)
finger of plantain
finger of banana
claw of crab
claw of crayfish
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hence okólo tụḅú ̣
opútụngba
tú ̣ọ
tú ̣ọ
n.
v.i.
tú ̣ọ
odú tú ̣ọ
tụó ̣
tụó ̣
tụrú ̣
tụrụ-éke
n.
v.p.
v.t.
n.
a.
n.m.
tụrụríị̣
tụrụríị̣
tụrụríịmọ
̣
tú ̣ụ
tú ̣ụmọ
tụwáịn
tụwáịn
tụwáịnmọ
tụwẹịn
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
ịrátụwẹịn
n.
tụwénị
̣
n.
fp
m
prehensile claw of crab, crayfish, etc.; chela
A. be cooked
B. swelter; be moist or languid with heat;
swelter; sweltering atmosphere
perspire; sweat; exude sweat
cook; seethe
cooking; seething
foul-smelling; hence
N igerian musk shrew
e.g. á tú ̣ọyó ‘I am
sweltering’
Crocidura nigeriae.
cf. ịsụ
trickly
trickle; pour out in drops
with a trickle
hiss
with a hiss
sizzle; make sputtering sound as in frying
sizzle; sputtering
with a sizzle
present food, etc., to woman at childbirth
according to N embe custom (done by the
husband or his representative); hence
customary presentation of food, etc., at
childbirth, by husband to woman
cord; twine
<English twine)
U.
ubé
n.
fr
African pear
udára
uú
n.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
fr
star apple
echo; resound with an echo; repeat by echo
echo
flow impetuously or fast; rush (as rainwater in
a gutter)
rush; violent flow (of water); noise of quarrel,
wave, etc., heard from a distance
with a rush
úuu
n.
úuumọ
adv.
Ụ.
ú ̣ụụ
v.i.
n.
ú ̣ụụmọ
adv.
flow impetuously (as water) to create
murmuring sound; sweep fast (as rain storm)
to produce similar sound; rush
rush; violent flow or sound (of rain storm or
murmuring stream) heard from a distance
with a rush
312
Pachybolus edulis
(<Igbo)
(<Igbo)
V.
váa1
v.i.
váamọ1
váa
váamọ2
vadáị2
váiimọ
vaivaí
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
vaivaímọ
váịị
váịịmọ
vakapúu
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
vadáịmọ
vadavadá
vadavadámọ
vádu, vadúu
vádumọ
váduvádu
váduvádumọ
vádụ, vadú ̣ụ
vádụmọ
vádụvádụ
vádụvádụmọ
váii
vakapúumọ
valúu
valúumọ
valuvalu
valuvalumọ
valú ̣ụ
valú ̣ụmọ
valụvalú ̣
vamútu
vamúu
vamúumọ
vamú ̣ụ
vamú ̣ụmọ
vángavúngu
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
n.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
fall rapidly on something to create a
continuous rattling sound; rush
with a continuous rattling sound
quick; rapid; swift
quickly; rapidly
splash; bespatter
splash
with a splash
spatter
spatteringly
spout or sputter heavily
with a loud spout
spout continuously
with a continuous spouting; sputteringly
spout or sputter lightly
with a light sputter
sputter or gurgle lightly and continuously
with a light gurgle
rush; speed
rushing; speeding
with a rush
affecting skin with pricking sensation;
irritative; pungent; piquant
give acute pain on the skin
irritation; piquancy; pungency
irritatingly; pungently; piquantly
rush; flow fast; speed
with speed; fast
make sound as of object being drawn from the
roots
such sound
with a loud cloop
protrudent; protrusive
protrude; stick out
protrudently; protrusively
purl; flow with whirling motion and babbling
sound (of brook)
purl; whirling motion and babbling sound
with a purl
slightly protrusive
stick out slightly
in a slightly protrusive manner
flow with slightly whirling motion and
babbling sound
slight whirling motion and babbling sound
hurricane lamp
spring or jump up violently
fling; violent spring
with a violent spring
spring lightly and suddenly
with a light spring
long throwing-stick
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vapúu
v.i.
vapúumọ
vapúuvapúu
adv.
v.i.
vapúuvapúumọ
vapú ̣ụ
vapú ̣ụmọ
vapú ̣ụvapú ̣ụ
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
vapú ̣ụvapú ̣ụmọ
vasíi
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
vasíimọ
vasíivasíi
vasíivasíimọ
vasíị̣
vasíịmọ
̣
vasíịvasí
ị̣
̣
vasíịvasí
ịmọ
̣
̣
vidáa
vidáamọ
vidividí
vidividímọ
víi
víimọ
víivíi
víivíimọ
vimúu
vimúumọ
vimúuvimúu
vimúuvimúumọ
vinínga
virikáa
virikáamọ
viriríi
viriríimọ
vírivíri
vírivírimọ
virivirí
virivirímọ
viyáa
viyáamọ
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
pull out stridently and loudly; pop (e.g. of
cork)
stridently (of pull)
pull out stridently and loudly and
continuously
with a continuous strident pull
disappear; vanish
vanishingly
pull stridently but less loudly; flicker as a
heated light
with a less strident pull; flickeringly
splash or spatter heavily
heavy splash or spatter
with a heavy splash
spout in heavy spray; pull and make water
spray heavily in the air
with a spray of water
splash or spatter lightly
light splash or spatter
with a light splash
spray lightly; pull and make water spray
slightly
with a light spray
firm (of hold)
firmly
streaming with tears
with streaming tears
speed; veer
speeding; veering
with speed; veeringly
speed; rush
speedily
make sudden strong pull away from
somebody’s grip
such sudden strong pull
with a strong pull
pull strongly and continuously
with a strong continuous pull
vinegar
stand up abruptly as if startled
abruptly (of stand)
enter smartly
smart entry
with a rush
hasty; hurried
make haste; hurry up
hastily; hurriedly
itching; irritating; irritative
give acute pain on the skin; irritate
irritation
irritatingly
spit hard upon
in a violent manner
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<English
viyái
viyáimọ
viyó
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
viyómọ
vịáa
vịáamọ
vịdịvịdí ̣
vịdịvịdímọ
̣
vịdịvịdíyọ
̣
víịị̣
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
víịịmọ
̣
vịmú ̣ụ
vịmú ̣ụmọ
vịmú ̣ụvịmú ̣ụ
vịmú ̣ụvịmú ̣ụmọ
vịrịvịríị̣
vịrịvịríịmọ
̣
vịú ̣ụ
vịú ̣ụmọ
vịyáa
vịyáamọ
vịyáị
vịyáịmọ
vodoróo
vodoróomọ
vondoróo
vondoróomọ
vóo
vóomọ
vóon
vóonmọ
vóoo
vóoomọ
voropúu
voropúumọ
vosíi
vosíimọ
vó ̣dị
vọdí ̣
vó ̣ọọ
vó ̣ọọmọ
vọró ̣
vọsíị̣
vọsíịmọ
̣
vọvó ̣
vọvó ̣mọ
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
flog hard
in a hard manner
become completely clear of (some skin
disease)
scrupulously
flog smartly and lightly
smartly and lightly
puddly
in a puddle
puddle
speed; rush
speedily
snatch; seize quickly; make sudden strong
pull from someone’s grip
with a quick snatch
with a quick, irregular motion
quickly and irregularly
enter into a hole smartly
smartly (of entry)
whiz or whizz
with a whizz
spit lightly but sharply upon
in a light but sharp manner
flog lightly but sharply
in a light but sharp manner
fall out in a lump (as shellfish)
in a lump
fall out in lump (as mucus)
in a lump
plentiful
plentifully
open (of hole); unsheathed; bare
openly; barely
fall to earth in a single go
in a single go
sink into something soft
with a sound of sinking into something soft
crash
with a crash
be squeezed
squeeze
squeezing
commence at one go (of rain, laugh, cry, etc.)
with one accord, pitch, tone
flog; beat with stick; thrash
crash lightly
light crash
with a light crash
lively; interesting; exciting
liveliness
in a lively way
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vudá
v.i.
vudámọ
vudamó ̣
vudáyo
vúguvúgu
adv.
v.t.
a.
a.
v.i.
vúngalamọ
vuráan
n.p.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
vuráanmọ
vuráanvuráan
vurán
vúrangáa
vúrangáamọ
vúrukúu
vúrukúumọ
vúu
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
vúumọ
vú ̣dụgú ̣ụ
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
vúgúvúgu loló
vúguvúgumọ
vukpáa
vukpáamọ
vúla
vúlamọ
vuláa
vuláamọ
vuláavuláa
vuláavuláamọ
vúle
vulé
vúngala
vú ̣dụgú ̣ụmọ
vụdụgú ̣ụ
vụdụgú ̣ụmọ
vụdụgú ̣vụdụgú ̣
vụdụgú ̣vụdụgú ̣mọ
vụkpáa
vụkpáamọ
vụkú ̣ụ
vụkú ̣ụmọ
vụláa
vụláamọ
generate matter; suppurate; discharge pus; be
purulent
purulently
cause to suppurate
purulent; discharging pus
(rage) violent; petulant; peevishly impatient or
irritable
rage; rave; speak furiously or madly (of
person, storm)
violent anger; petulance
petulantly; peevishly
spring with force
with a spring
eddy; swirl
with a swirl or an eddy
flare up; kindle; flash
flare; flash
with a flash
flicker; flash; eddy
flickeringly; with a swirl
be induced
induce; persuade; prevail on
swagger
swaggeringly
make short running sound amongst trees or
grasses
with a short running sound
make continuous short runs amongst grasses
slash; make a rough cut
thick; overgrown
thickly
thick; shaggy
thickly; shaggily
veer; change direction of boat forcefully;
change course of walk, etc.; finish; blow hard
(as storm)
veeringly
plump; filled out; fleshy
become plump
plumply
enter sloppily into ditch; squelch
sloppily; squelchily
sloppy (of road); wet with rain; full of puddles
sloppiness; squelchiness
sloppily
spring lightly
with a light spring
leave; go away from, recede, slightly
slightly (of movement)
enter smartly
smartly (of entry)
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vú ̣ngalamọ
vú ̣ngaláa
vú ̣ngaláamọ
vụráan
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
vụráanmọ
vụráanvụráan
adv.
v.i.
vuráanvụráanmọ
vụrán
vú ̣rụkú ̣ụ
adv.
v.i.
a.
vú ̣rụkú ̣ụmọ
v.i.
adv.
vú ̣ngala
swagger
swaggeringly
wave momentarily; return abruptly
with momentary wave (of tail)
make slight jumping sound amongst grasses
of trees
with a slight jumping sound
make continuous slight running sound among
grasses
with continuous short running sound
slash; make rough cut
(of face) fierce; angry-looking; gloomy (of
weather)
become gloomy or fierce-looking
fiercely
W.
wá
v.i.
wáḅá
n.
wamó ̣
v.t.
wá sára
wa1
v.p.
pron.
wa2
wa3
pron.
pron.
wayé
waweí
wáa
n.
n.
v.i.
wáamọ
wáa2
adv.
v.i.
wáamọ2
wáa3
adv.
v.i.
wáamọ3
wáa4
n.
adv.
excl.
wáan
wáanmọ
wanmó ̣
waḅúu
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.t.
v.t.
& i.
be flooded or filled to overflowing (of river or
container)
time of spring tide when water stays full till
break of day
cause to overflow, overbrim, inundate or
deluge
overflow; overbrim
subject form of 1st person plural pronoun; we;
e.g. wa ḅoyó ‘we
are coming’
e.g. wa léẹ̣ ‘flog us’
object form of 1st person plural pronoun, us;
possessive form of 1st person plural pronoun;
our; of or belonging to us
ours; our thing; our own
ours; our own
make continuous sound as of light rain rattling
on something or of water running after a
breaker has dashed on the shore
with such continuous sound
make sound as of waterfall pouring out its
water; splash; gush; issue in copious stream
gushingly
make continuous sound as of something being
torn or rent
such continuous sound
with a tearing sound
are you sure ....?
e.g. ị ḅonyú ̣ wáa?
‘are you sure you
will come?’
make sound (as) of pot about to boil
such sound
with a hissing sound
steam lightly
snap; bite or break off heavily
317
waḅúumọ
waḅú ̣ụ
waḅú ̣ụmọ
wága
wagá
wagalá1
wagalá2
wagíiwagíi
wagíiwagíimọ
wágị
adv.
v.t.
& i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
gbá wagí ̣
wagí ̣
n.
v.p.
v.t.
wagímọ
̣
v.t.
wagịmó ̣
v.t.
n.
wágulúu
wágulúumọ
wágurúu
wagúruwagúru
wágụlú ̣ụ
wágụlú ̣ụmọ
wáịn1
wáịnmọ1
wáịn2
wáịnmọ2
waíṇ
wakárawakára,
wákarawakara
n.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.t.
a.
with a snap
break off lightly
with a light snap
be shaken
be tossed, swayed, rocked
swaying or rocking motion
rock; toss; sway
rinse; swill; flush; pour water over or through
sprawl
with a sprawl
A. return; come or go back
return; going back
B. be turned round; be rotated, revolved,
deflected, diverted, stirred, converted
conversion
convert; evangelize; win over to Christianity
A. turn; turn round; revolve; rotate; turn aside;
deflect; divert; stir; turn (tubular organ) inside
out
turn towards a specified direction - right, left
or about
return; give or pay back or in return. May
precede many verbs to give the meaning of
the English prefix re-, back, once, more,
again, anew, afresh (often with implication
that previous doing, etc., was deficient or
erroneous or now requires alteration or
improvement or renewal)
B. twist the teeth of saw alternately for sawing
slight turn in the teeth of saw
C. trick someone so as to capture two or more
pieces at the same time; trick and turn down
an opponent in wrestling
trick in draughts or wrestling
stodgy; bulging
stodginess
in a bulging manner
baggy; puffed out
bagginess
baggy; bulging (of clothes)
bulging (out)
bulge out
in a bulging way
twang; clank
with a clank or twang
sizzle; sputtering sound
with a sizzle
abrade; graze; scrape
dry and rough
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e.g. wagịmó ̣ gbá
‘retell’ wagịmó ̣ ḅo
‘bring back’
wagịmó ̣ gé ̣
‘rewrite’, etc.
wála
walaḅáa
walaḅáamọ
walágị
walagí ̣
waláị
waláịmọ
wálaláa
wálaláamọ
walawalá
conj.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
whether
fiddle (as crab); make aimless movement
in an aimless manner
be scattered
turn over; scatter
fiddle (as crab); make aimless movement
aimlessly (of movement)
flat; shallow
shallowly
move up and down, to and fro, in all
directions; surge
surging motion
with a surge
bulging
bulge (largely)
large bulge
with a bulge
leak out (as water); gush
gushingly
bulge (slightly)
slight bulge
we (emphatic)
wamịní ̣
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
pron.
wan
n.m.
wanáịn
wanmúuwanmúum
ọ
wanmú ̣ụ1
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
v.i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
sprinkle; scatter in small drops or particles
sprinkling
with a sprinkle
dart; whip; appear suddenly in some direction
with a dart
tingle; feel pricking sensation
with a tingling sensation
be flushed or swilled
rinse; flush; swill
smart; rankle; give intermittent pain
rankle; give constant pain
shooting (of pain)
shootingly
v.i.
wanmú ̣ụmọ1
wanmú ̣ụ2
wanmú ̣ụmọ2
wanmú ̣ụwanmú ̣ụ
wanwán
wanwánmọ
wára
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
wará
waraḅúu
waraḅúumọ
waraḅú ̣ụ
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
enter in nostrils faintly, i.e. perceive smell
faintly
faintly
snatch; seize quickly
with a snatch
given to snatching
become lively
smartly
be scratched or abraded; be free of stem
attachment (as palms)
abrade; scratch; score
be shattered or snapped
with a snap
snap sharply
walawalámọ
wáluu
wáluumọ
wáluwálu
wáluwálumọ
wálụụ
wanáịnmọ
wananáa
wananáamọ
wánawána
wánawánamọ
wángala
wangalá
wanmúu
wanmúuwanmúu
m
Maxwell’s duiker
319
subject form of 1st
person plural long
pronoun;
Cephalophus
Maxwelli
waraḅú ̣ụmọ
warasíi
adv.
v.i.
warasíimọ
warasíị̣
adv.
v.i.
warasíịmọ
̣
warawará1
warawarámọ1
warawará2
warawarámọ2
wáriwári
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
n.pl.
n.m.
n.
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.m.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n.
n
n.
n.
n.
n.m.
n.
wáriwárimọ
warí1̣
warị-áye
waríḅọlọ
̣
waríkiri
̣
warínyana-ará
̣
warínyanaḅó
̣
̣
warị-óngu
warínyana-oweí
̣
warítugu
̣
akámawarí ̣
egélewarí ̣
ikoliwarí ̣
ịsọnọwarí ̣
ofoniwarí ̣
omoniwarí ̣
opóropówarị
otóngoiwarí ̣
otongbolowarí ̣
ovinwarí ̣
p
p
with a sharp snap
tread heavily so as to cause things to snap
loudly; dig or prick forcefully
with a heavy tread
tread lightly so as to cause things to snap
faintly; dig or prick sharply
snap sharply
coarse, not soft (grain)
coarsely
rattle
with a rattle
hurry; move with undue or great haste
hurry; undue haste
hurriedly
A. dwelling house; coop; nest
penates; household gods
gecko
floor; building site
mistress; landlady
owner of house; landlord or landlady
p
house-people
p
landlord
household
apiary; beehive
bird’s nest
prison; gaol
ants’ nest
pen; mat roof of canoe
house of bondage
piggery; sty
wasps’ nest
mosquito net
cattle-pen
B. the people living in a house; a family or
household; the unilineal descendants of a
family or household living together as a
corporate group, and including any other
relatives, strangers, and slaves who may be
attached to the household
hold office as titular chief of a household
titular chief
piece (of cloth)
piece of cloth
bulging sideways; oblate
in a bulging way
be dispersed; be scattered
scatteringly; stragglingly
scatter; strew; spread; disperse; dismiss;
circulate; straggle
scatter over; straggle over (a place)
spread; strew; scatter
spray; fly in spray (as liquid)
r
p
warí d
̣ a
warídaḅó
̣
̣
warí2̣
ḅịtéwarị
̣
wáruu
wáruumọ
wása
wásamọ
wasá
v.p.
n.m.
n.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
wasámọ
wasamó ̣
wásaa
v.t.
v.t.
v.i.
p
320
= ḅó ̣lọ
(pl. warínyanạ
ongú)
wásaamọ
wásawása
wasíi
wasíimọ
wasíị̣
wasíịmọ
̣
wáya
wée
wéemọ
wégeláa
wégeláamọ
wégerée
wégeréemọ
wegerewegeré,
wegeréwegere
wegerewegerémọ
wéguláa
wéguláamọ
wéguráa
wéguráamọ
wei
-wei
wékekáa
wékekáamọ
wékekée
wékekéemọ
wekelée
wekeléemọ
wekélewekéle,
wekeléwekele
wekélewekélemọ
wélekée
wélekéemọ
wélekpáa
wélekpáamọ
wélekpée
wélekpéemọ
wéleláa
wéleláamọ
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
in a spray
in a spray
issue in showers
pierce heavily or forcefully
forcefully (piercing)
pierce sharply
sharply (piercing)
fast (of current)
run fast (of current)
fast
wide (of container)
widely
baggy; not tight
widely
roomy; not tight
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.m.
suff.
roominess, commodiousness
widely
wide (of container)
widely
baggy; not tight
widely
"what-do-you-call-it"; thingamy; thingummy
suffix often added to verb (phrase) to form
instrumental noun
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
having gaps; gapped
become full of gaps
in gaps
having gaps; gapped
become full of gaps
in gaps
lurch; jerk suddenly to one side (of something
open, e.g. canoe, plate)
lurch; jerk to one side
with a lurch
unsteady (of canoe)
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
unsteadily (of canoe)
empty; devoid of (inmates)
emptily
empty; open
emptily; openly
empty; open
emptily; openly
wide (of entrance)
widely
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= wóya (cf. ọyaya)
e.g. munú ‘sleep’,
munúwei ‘bed’;
tịḅị sogió ‘raise
head’, tịḅịsogioweí
‘pillow’; wẹwé ̣
‘pare away’;
wẹwéwei
̣ ‘plane’;
etc. Such nouns are
masculine
wélelée
wéleléemọ
wémbe
wenáa
wenáamọ
wénawéna,
wenáawenáa
wénawénamọ
wengeráa
wengeráamọ
wengeráawengeráa
wengeráawengeráa
mọ
wereweré
werewerémọ
wesáa
wesáamọ
wetáan
wetáanmọ
wetáanwetáan
wetanwetán
wetanwetánmọ
wéḅé
̣ ̣
wéẹ̣
wéẹmọ
̣
wéịn
̣
wẹké ̣
wẹkẹléẹ̣
wẹkẹléẹmọ
̣
wẹkẹléwẹkẹlẹ,
̣
wẹkélẹwẹké
lẹ
̣
̣
wẹkẹléwẹkẹlẹmọ
̣
wékẹrẹ
̣
wẹkẹwẹké ̣
wẹlẹgíwẹlẹgị,
̣
wẹlégịwẹlé
gị
̣
̣
wẹlẹgíwẹlẹgịmọ
̣
wélẹlé
̣ ẹ̣
wélẹlé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
wẹlẹwẹlé1̣
wẹlẹwẹlémọ
̣ 1
wẹlẹwẹlé2̣
wẹlẹwẹlémọ
̣ 2
a.
adv.
n.m.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
wide
widely
small rat
flash; blaze
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
in flames
startle; glance about (of eyes)
with a sudden glance
glance suddenly and continuously
with a continuous sudden glance (of eyes)
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.t.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
thirsty; parched
thirst; feel thirst
thirst
thirstily
spray; fly in spray (as liquid)
in spray
fall in big sheet (as cloth on someone)
in a tangle
straggle; get dispersed (cloth)
straggly
stragglingly
say; said so (wó ̣-ḅé)̣
flow in slowly or lightly
slowly (of flow of tide)
small; tiny
grind; whet; strop; file
lurch (e.g. of small canoe or plate)
adv.
adv.
v.t.
a.
unsteadily
now; in the immediate past; at length; then;
just
file; grind; strop; whet
incoherent (of speech)
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
babble; talk incoherently
babbling
incoherently
shallow (dish, mind, etc.); flat
become shallow or flat
shallowness
shallowly; flatly
conspicuous; clear
conspicuously; clearly
loquacious
talk excessively
loquaciousness; loquacity
loquaciously
with a flash or blaze
flashing
with a lurch
(of canoe) unsteady
322
wénsẹnwé
nsẹnmọ
̣
̣
wẹnsẹnwẹnséṇ
wẹnsẹnwẹnsénmọ
̣
wérẹwé
rẹ
̣
̣
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
wérẹwé
rẹmọ
̣
̣
wẹrẹnwẹréṇ
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
wẹnẹwẹné ̣
wẹnẹwẹnémọ
̣
wénsẹnwé
nsẹn
̣
̣
wẹrẹnwẹrénmọ
̣
wérụụ
̣
wérụụmọ
̣
wẹwé ̣
wẹwé ̣ sará
wẹwésara-áye
̣
wẹwéwei
̣
wiḅúu
wiḅúumọ
wígiwígi
wígiwígimọ
wíi
wíimọ
wíin1
wíin2
wíki1
wíki2
wílilíi
wílilíimọ
wílipúu
wílipúumọ
wiliwilí
wiliwilímọ
winmúu
winyáa
winyáamọ
winyawinyá
wiri
wiriḅúu
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.p.
n.pl.
n.m.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
excl.
v.i.
n.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.m.f
.
v.i.
fine; thin; tiny
finely; thinly
drizzly
drizzle
drizzlingly
fringed
in fringes
(of speaker, speech) glib; fluent; garrulous;
loquacious; voluble; (of some soils) crumbly;
offering no resistance
talk fluently or quickly
glibness; volubility
glibly; fluently; volubly
clean; free from dirt; unsoiled; free of
ceremonial defilement
be clean
cleanness
cleanly; in a clean way
oblate; swelling sideways
swell from the side
oblately
plane; pare away; shave
pare off; plane
shavings; dross
plane
break crisply
crisply
(of handling) rough; violent
be rough with (in handling)
roughly (handling)
furious; uncontrolled; frantic
furiously; frantically
wine
Hmph! (expresses doubt or dissatisfaction)
use such an expression
wick (of lamp)
week; period of seven days
become bare of bark, peeled
wanly; whitishly
rise with alternate falls; heave (as waves, etc.)
heaving; heave
with a heave
wan, bloodless and whitish (of wound)
become bare of bark, peeled
wanly
make rude gesture with pursed-up lips
spread on top of water (as kerosene)
with a flash
volatile; evaporating rapidly (as petrol and
some types of varnish
clever, cunning person
snip; cut in quick strokes
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<English
<English
<English
wiriḅúumọ
wiriḅúuwiriḅúu
n.
adv.
v.i.
wịnrịkíịwịnrịkí
ị̣
̣
wịnrịkíịwịnrịkí
ịmọ
̣
̣
wịnyáa
wịnyáamọ
wịrịsíị̣
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
wịrịsíịmọ
̣
wịrịsíịwịrịsí
ị̣
̣
adv.
a.
wịsíị̣
wíya
̣
wịyá
wógii
n.
v.i.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
wirisíi
wirisíimọ
wíriwíri
wíriwírimọ
wisíi
wisíimọ
wíyaa
wíyaamọ
wịḅú ̣ụ
wịḅú ̣ụmọ
wịḅú ̣ịwịḅú ̣ụ
wịḅú ̣ụwịḅú ̣ụmọ
wígịwí
̣ gị̣
wígịwí
̣ gịmọ
̣
wịlịlíị̣
wịlịlíịmọ
̣
wịlịlíịwịlịlí
ị̣
̣
wịlịlíịwịlịlí
ịmọ
̣
̣
wịnkíị̣
wịnkíịmọ
̣
wịnkíịwịnkí
ị̣
̣
wịnmú ̣ụ
wịnmú ̣ụmọ
wịnrịkáa
wịnrịkáawịnrịkáa
wịnrịkíị̣
snip
snippingly
make loud, continuous chipping, mowing, or
clawing sound; snip continuously
excrete with a loud noise
loudly and noisily (excretion)
hurry; move with haste
hurriedly; hastily
burst with force (as of a turgid substance)
forcefully; with a splash
simpering
simper; smile affectedly
simperingly
crisp; break crisply
crisply
crisp; brittle
crispness
crisply
be busy aimlessly with
aimlessly (in writing, working)
slip; slide
with a slip or slide
slippery; slippy; slimy
slipperiness
slipperily
squeak
squeakily
squeaky
squeak continuously
continuous squeaking
scratch someone to draw his attention
with a scratch
start; make sudden movement
sudden start or movement
restless; fidgeting
move restlessly about; fidget
squeak
squeaky
squeakily
smart; ingenious; quick
smartly; ingeniously
burst with light sound (as of bursting or
crushing louse)
with light sound
brittle; apt to break (of sound when, e.g.,
walking on dead leaves or grass)
brittleness; fragility
burst
be torn
tear off
thick (of bunch)
324
wógiimọ
wogo
wógolóo
adv.
v.i.
a.
wógolóomọ
wógoróo
wógoróomọ
wogorówogoro
wogorówogoromọ
wóguu
wóguumọ
wóin
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
wóinmọ
wóko
wokó
wókobárị
wolowolómọ2
wongoló
wongoró
wónomúu
wónowóno
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
a.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
wónowónomọ
wóntonwónton
adv.
v.i.
wókokóo
wókokóomọ
wókolóo
wókolóomọ
wókosóo
wókosóomọ
wokowokó
wológi
wólolóo
wólolóomọ
wólowólo
wólowólomọ
wolowoló1
wolowolómọ1
wolowoló2
thickly
be nearly drooping (of breast)
loose; slack; not tight; weighed down (e.g. of
branch or breast)
loosely; slackly
loose; slack; not tight (e.g. of string)
loosely; slackly
very loose; slack; not fitting
loosely; slackly
thick (of bunch or bundle)
thickly
twang
with a twang
be hollowed or carved out
carve out; hollow out
work-bar, i.e. commission claimed from a
supercargo by the representatives of a house
to which a trade belongs on every twenty
puncheons of oil bought. There was another
commission called "customs bar" charged on
every puncheon of oil sold. This was
deducted from the native trader’s money and
paid to the chief under whose auspices the
supercargo had placed his ship for trading.
with gaps
gape; be open wide
full of gaps
hollow; sunken
become deep
hollowly
lean; thin; not plump
become lean
thinly
bubble; rattle
boil or bubble over; seethe; rage (as sea)
wide and straight (of hole or river)
widely
loud; strongly audible; pronounced
speak loudly or noisily
loudly; audibly
large (of meshes); very wide
be very wide
in a very wide manner
very hot
be very hot
in a very hot manner
rock; lurch; sway
scoop inside a hole
sloping deep down; declivous
swarm about; congregate in numbers (as bees,
flies, etc.); talk boisterously
in swarms; boisterously
swarm about
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<English
wóntonwóntonmọ
wóntoon
wóntoonmọ
woó
woómọ
wóon
wóoo
worí
worí
wori-írẹ
̣
worílátẹ
worínumo
wóro
woró
wórogíi
wórogíimọ
worogíi
worogíimọ
woróko
worókomọ
worokó
wororóo
wororóomọ
woróroworóro
woróroworóromọ
wórosíi
wórosíimọ
worosíi
worosíimọ
worósiworósi,
worosíworosi
wórowóro
wórowóromọ
wósii
wósiimọ
wosíi
wosíimọ
wosó
wosómọ
wósowóso
wósowósomọ
wowó
wowómọ
wó ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
v.i.
v.t.
n.
n.
a.
n.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
adv.
in swarms
rank; foul-smelling, stinking, fetid
fetidly; rankly
red; mellow
mellowly
buzz
run (as a stream); fall (as a waterfall)
abuse; affront; curse; insult; revile
abuse; affront; curse; insult; woe
derogatory nickname; bad name
accursed; accurst
abusive curse
cave in; yield inwards
hollow out; undermine
inclined; ready to fall
in an inclined or bent way
collapse; fall heavily or suddenly; plunk
suddenly and heavily
cave in; yield inwards
hollowly
undermine; wear out
quaff; drink in long draughts
in copious or long draughts
croaky (of voice)
in a croaking manner
baggy
in a baggy form
collapse; fall suddenly
suddenly (of fall)
baggy
fall in rapid succession
in rapid succession
heavy and pendulous (as bunch of plantain,
etc.)
heavily and pendulously
fall in a big heap
(of fall) in a heap
splash; dash
with a splash
full of spray
spout continuously
in spray or in a spout
red
redly
A. so; accordingly; like:
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e.g. ó wó ̣ ḅé ̣ ‘he
said so’; aíṇ wó ̣
pagá ‘it appeared or
happened so’; aíṇ
wó ̣ timí ‘it was so;
it was like this; it
seemed so; it stayed
B. thus; in this way; in this manner:
wọ
part.
particle used to emphasize statements:
wọgó ̣
wó ̣gọló ̣ọ
wó ̣gọló ̣ọmọ
wó ̣gụụ
wó ̣gụụmọ
wọí ̣
wó ̣ịn
squeeze
pendulous
pendulously
thick (of bunch)
thickly
agree; be in harmony with
twang
wó ̣ịnmọ
wọkọwọkó ̣
wọkọwọkó ̣mọ
wó ̣kụ
v.t.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
adv.
adv.
wó ̣kụna
wó ̣kụḿ’ḅụ
wó ̣kụwó ̣kụ
wọló ̣
wó ̣lọló ̣ọ
wó ̣lọló ̣ọmọ
wọlọpú ̣ụ
wọlọpú ̣ụmọ
wó ̣lọwó ̣lọ
wó ̣lọwó ̣lọḍugo
wó ̣lọwó ̣lọmọ
wó ̣nọnó ̣ọ
wó ̣nọnó ̣ọmọ
wó ̣ọn
a.
adv.
adv.
v.t.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
wó ̣ọnmọ
wọọn
n.
adv.
v.i.
wọó ̣nmọ
wó ̣ọọ
wó ̣ọọmọ
wọrị
adv.
v.i.
adv.
adv.
with a twang
very high and full (of spring tide)
very full
now; at the present time; by this time; under
the present circumstances; immediately; yet;
still; as late as now
just now
lately; recently; not long ago
soon; in a short time
backbite; make subject of gossip
enter into something freely and unimpeded
freely; unimpededly
enter into well-enclosed or sheltered condition
snugly
drivel; twaddle
drivel; twaddle; prosy talk
prosily
lengthy; longish
lengthily; longishly
make short sharp note (as) of small bird; utter
(song); chirp
chirp; short sharp note of bird
with a chirp
be completely reared up; grow up together in
health, without loss by death (e.g. of brood of
chickens)
as a complete, healthy group
fall heavily (as rain)
heavily (of rainfall)
now; before;
wọrị
v.t.
leave; let remain; remain over;
wọrị mú, or wọrị
soú
v.p.
abandon; leave off; quit; go away from
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so’
e.g. ó wó ̣ fié ‘he
spoke thus’; wó ̣
timi ifié by this
time; by now’
e.g. á gbọrị nama
ḅá; á gbọrị nama
wó ̣ ḅá ‘I killed one
(or an) animal’
(= wó ̣kụmí ḅụ)
̣
e.g. wó ̣rị mịéẹ̣
‘make it now’; mịé ̣
wọrị ‘made before’
mịé ̣ wọrị ‘make
and keep it; keep
up’
wọrị prí ̣
wọrịo
v.p.
v.aux
.
leave over for
(literally) leave or keep (behind); retain.
Always used in combination with another
verb:
wó ̣rọ
wọró ̣
wó ̣rọgíị̣
wó ̣rọgíịmọ
̣
wó ̣rọró ̣ọ
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
wó ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
wó ̣rọsíị̣
wó ̣rọsíịmọ
̣
wọrọwọró ̣
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
wọrọwọró ̣mọ
wó ̣sịị
wó ̣sịịmọ
wọsíị̣
wó ̣ya
wúgulúu
wúgulúumọ
wúguru
wúgurumọ
wugurumó ̣
wúku
wuláa
wuláamọ
wúlawúla
wúlawúlamọ
wungáa
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
n.m.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
wungáamọ
wúnguwúngu
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
be dismantled
dismantle
inclined
slopingly
enter into something freely and without
impediment
freely and unimpededly
ruined; dilapidated
in a ruined way
rattle; give out rapid succession of short sharp
hard sounds
in rapid succession
heavy and pendulous (as a wasps’ nest)
pendulously
fall in a small heap
heavily filled (as breast)
heavily
fester; generate matter
in a festering manner
cause festering in
hook and eye for fastening dress
eat greedily
greedily; voraciously
loquacious
loquaciously
shake violently (as a beast amongst tall grass
while grazing)
violently (of shake)
murmur; hum
wúnguwúngumọ
wurawurá
wurawurámọ
wurukúu
wurukúumọ
wurúkuwurúku,
wurukúwuruku
wurúkuwurúkumọ
wúrurúu
b
adv.
a.
murmurously
red; reddish
be red
redness
redly
yield loosely to pressure (e.g. of soft ground
when stepped on)
loosely
loose; not compact; porous
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
become less tight
loosely
rumble; make sound (as) of air in the bowels
rumble
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or wọrịyo e.g. ó
mịé ̣ wọrịó ‘he has
done something and
kept it up’; ó mịé ̣
wọrịó ‘he must
have done it’; ó mịé ̣
wọrịó ‘he has done
well’
=wáya (see ọyaya)
<English hook
wúrurúumọ
wururúu
wururúumọ
wururuwururu
wúruwúru
wúruwúru
wúruwúrumọ
wúsawúsa
wúsawúsa
wúsawúsaghá
wúsawúsamọ
wusú
wusúmọ
wúsuwúsu
wúsuwúsumọ
wúuu1
wúuumọ1
wúuu2
wúuumọ
wú ̣gụlú ̣ụ
wú ̣gụlú ̣ụmọ
wú ̣lụwú ̣lụ
wú ̣lụwú ̣lụmọ
wú ̣ngụwú ̣ngụ
wú ̣ngụwú ̣ngụmọ
wú ̣nụwú ̣nụ
wú ̣nụwú ̣nụmọ
wụrụkú ̣ụ
wụrụkú ̣ụmọ
wụrụkú ̣wụrụkụ,
wụrú ̣kụwụrú ̣kụ
wụrụkú ̣wụrụkụmọ
wụrụrụụ
wụrụrụụmọ
wụrụrụwụrụrụ
wú ̣ụụ1
wú ̣ụụ2
wú ̣ụụmọ
adv.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
n.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
v.i.
v.i.
n.
adv.
with a rumble
enter without hesitation
without hesitation (of entry)
rumble continuously
continuous rumble
hasty; hurried; rash
hurry; haste
hastily; hurriedly
prodigal; wasteful
be lavish with; give without stint
lavishness; lavishment
economical; not wasteful; thrifty
lavishly; prodigally
give way, as loose soil
loosely
loose; soft; not compact (of soil); porous
looseness; porosity
loosely
rumour
in a rumour
impetuous; moving rapidly
move rapidly or fast (water); sound as swiftly
moving water
impetuousness; impetuosity
impetuously
heavily filled (as scrotum)
heavily
loquacious; babbling
babble; chatter
babbling; loquaciousness
loquN embe dictionaryaciously
snuffle; murmur
in a murmur
snuffle; speak nasally or whiningly; murmur
snuffle; whining
snufflingly; in a murmur; whiningly
yield softly to pressure
softly
very soft
become soft; soften
very softly
rumble
with a rumble
rumble continuously
continuous rumble
move rapidly or fast
sound as slowly moving water
such faint moving sound
with light moving sound
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Y.
-ya
suff.
added to verb stems to make them convey a
reciprocal meaning:
yáa
yáḅei yáa
excl.
excl.
p.
excl.
p.
excl.
p.
n.m.f
.
n.f.
n.m.f
.
n.m.
n.m.f
.
n.f.
n.m.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.m.
n.m.
a.
p
calling someone’s attention
you (man); vocative in an exclamatory
statement
you (woman); vocative in an exclamatory
statement
you (plural); vocative in an exclamatory
statement
uncle or aunt
p
p
aunt
uncle or aunt
p
p
uncle
niece or nephew
p
p
niece
nephew
brackish; between salt and fresh
in a brackish condition
unwieldy
unwieldiness
unwieldily
clustered
in a cluster
riotous; disorderly; unruly
become riotous or rowdy
riotously
tiny or bony (of fish); (of place) littery, untidy
become littered and untidy
son
son
filial
yáma yáa
yámein yáa
yaḅí ̣
yaḅị-ára
yaḅíḅọ
̣
yaḅị-ówei
yaḅítọgụ
̣
yaḅítọgụ-ará
̣
yaḅítọgụ-oweí
̣
yaḅụyaḅú ̣
yaḅụyaḅú ̣mọ
yágitáa
yágitáamọ
yágịlíị̣
yágịlíịmọ
̣
yágịyágị
yágịyágịmọ
yagịyagí ̣
yaí ̣
yaíḅọ
̣
p
p
yaíḅọ
̣ ḅara
adv.p
.
filially;
yaị
n.pl.
-yaị
suff.
things belonging to (him, her, them, us); (his,
her, their, our) own:
suffix added to stems of words to form plural;
similar to -aye:
330
e.g. paga ‘go out’,
pagáya ‘be
divorced’; lé ̣ ‘flog’,
léya
̣ ‘flog one
another’; ḅa ‘kill’,
ḅáya ‘kill one
another’; temí
‘stab’, temíya ‘stab
one another’
e.g. mímị
̣ yaíḅọ
̣ fịrí ̣
‘this is a filial duty’
e.g. yaíḅọ
̣ ḅara ékị
̣
ó da nẹkí ‘receive
̣
him filially’
e.g. ó yaí ‘his
̣
things’
e.g. fị ‘eat’, fịyaí =
̣
fị-ayé ‘eatables’;
ḅou ‘drink’; ḅouyaí ̣
= ḅou-ayé
‘drinkables’;
ḅarátụayé ‘ring’,
ḅarátụayaí ‘rings’
̣
yáịị, yaịị
a.
yásiimọ
ye
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
ye ḅíya
v.p.
yeḅíya-ongú
n.pl.p
ers.
a.p.
yáịịmọ
yaịmó1
yaịmó2̣
yakayaká
yakayakámọ
yakayaka-ó ̣nụngọ
yakolóyakolóo
yakolóyakolóomọ
yálaláa
yálaláamọ
yalịyalí ̣
yalịyalímọ
̣
yámbiríi
yambiríimọ
yáraráa
yáraráamọ
yarayará
yarayarámọ
yásii
ye ékị
̣ kụmọ
mịẹghá
yefá
yefịḅará
yefịḅió
ye lá
yemá bịsẹ
yemí b
̣ ịsẹ
yenimí
yenimiḅará
yenimiḅó ̣
adv.
n.
n.
v.p.
n.p.
n.p.
a.
n.
adv.
n.m.f
calm; placid; reticent; quiet; serene; silent;
tranquil; unruffled; windless; unperturbed
be silent; be quiet; keep silent
calmness; quietness; silence
calmly; reticently; silently
be silent
silence
ripply; rippling
ripple; toss to and fro (as small waves)
ripple; tossing; rolling
with ripples
ripply waves
munch or chew with much action of jaw
with much action of jaws
flat (of plate)
flatness
flatly
clean; free from dirt
in a clean way; cleanly
corpulent; bulky
corpulence
plumply
lanceolate; tapering
be tapered off
taperingly
sharp and pointed
sharpness
sharply
branchy; spreading (of boughs)
spread out; branch (of tree)
state of having spreading branches
in a spreading way
thing; something; matter; material;
implement; imaginary animal, plant or
anything; monster
take counsel about something; discuss
something
counsellors
innocuous; not injurious; harmless
nothing; nought
right hand
parlour; dining room
wound
all the things; everything
the whole thing
wise; discreet; sensible; prudent; sagacious
wisdom; prudence
wisely; discreetly; sensibly; prudently, etc.
wise man; wise person
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(pl. yenimi-ongú)
ẹkị ye ḍigịmọ
ẹkịyeḍigímọ
ẹkịyeḍigímọgha
.
a.
n.
v.p.
n.
a.
-ye
n.
suff.
yenimighá
yéuumọ
yẹ
v.i.
adv.
a.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
part.
Oh!
recumbent; reclining
recline; be in a recumbent position
recumbently
chap-fallen; with jaw hanging down; bathchap
in a chap-fallen manner
turn eyes quickly to see
with a quick turn of the eyes
rascally; belonging to the disorderly class
rascality
in a rascally way
dear; precious; high-priced; costly; of great
value; especial; fundamental; important
slip; lose footing; slide unintentionally
slipperily; in a slippery way
slippery; slippy
fast; swift
move fast
swiftly; fast
massive
massiveness
massively
dart; start rapidly in some direction
such rapid movement
with a dart
calm; quiet; windless
calmness; quietness
calmly; quietly
used after verbs and nouns for emphasis:
yẹẹ
yégẹgé
ẹ̣
̣
excl.
a.
Oh!
recumbent; reclining
yée
yégegée
yégegéemọ
yégelée
yégeléemọ
yekerée
yekeréemọ
yekeréyekere
yekeréyekeremọ
yelá
yelelée
yeleléemọ
yeleléyelele
yerekée
yerekéemọ
yerekúu
yerekúumọ
yererée
yereréemọ
yéuu
excl.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
foolish
foolishness
respect
respect
careless (of duty); lax; negligent; not strict;
remiss
carelessness; laxity; negligence
suffix often added to the root of the word to
form a neuter noun:
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
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e.g. mịé ̣ ‘do’,
mịéye
̣ ‘deed’; seí
‘bad’, seíye ‘bad
thing or sinful
action’; fie ‘talk’,
fieyé ‘talk, thing
said’
e.g. ó ḅotẹí yẹ
̣
wéḅé
̣ ̣ ‘they say he
has arrived’; ịkagí ̣
yẹ wébé
̣ ̣ ‘they say it
is Tortoise’; ó
indíḅei pẹịtẹí yẹ
̣
‘he has eaten the
fish!’
yégẹgé
ẹmọ
̣
̣
yégẹlé
̣ ẹ̣
yégẹlé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
yẹgẹyẹgé ̣
yẹgẹyẹgémọ
̣
yékẹré
ẹ̣
̣
yékẹré
ẹmọ
̣
̣
yẹkẹréẹ̣
yẹkẹréẹmọ
̣
yẹkérẹyẹké
rẹ
̣
̣
yẹkérẹyẹké
rẹmọ
̣
̣
yẹkẹtéẹ̣
yẹkẹtéẹmọ
̣
yélẹlé
̣ ẹ̣
yélẹlé
̣ ẹmọ
̣
yẹré ̣
yérẹké
ẹ̣
̣
yérẹké
ẹmọ
̣
̣
yésẹré
̣ ẹ̣
yésẹré
̣ ẹmọ
̣
yéụụ
̣
yéụụmọ
̣
yikayiká
yikayikámọ
yíridíi
yíridíimọ
yịgọlí ̣
yịlịlíị̣
yịlịlíyịlịlị
̣
yịlịlíyịlịlịmọ
̣
yírịdí
̣ ị̣
yírịdí
̣ ịmọ
̣
yịrịríị̣
yịrịríịmọ
̣
-yo
yógogíi
yógogíimọ
yogogíyogogi
yogogíyogogimọ
yógolóo
yógolóomọ
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
n.
v.i.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
suf.
recline; be in recumbent position
recumbently
with jaw hanging down
in a chap-fallen manner
very large
develop; increase
largely
scanty; few; not many
scantily
stare
staringly
unsteady; restless
look unsteady; look here and there
restlessly; unsteadily
stare
staringly
having the jaw hanging down; chap-fallen
with fallen jaw
deliver a message
qualmish; queasy
feel qualm or momentarily faint or sick
queasiness; qualm
with a qualm
(of stomach) bulging; stodgy
rest quietly due to stodgy stomach
in a stodgy manner
calm; quiet; windless
become quiet
calmness; quietude; quietness
calmly; quietly
enormous; very large
enormously
oversized
cluster (of coconut)
slip; lose footing
slippery
slipperiness
in a slippery way
oversized
bend slightly; nod
with a nod
suffix used to form the present continuous of
verbs:
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
almost falling; leaning over
lean over; be about to fall
in a leaning-over way
tottery
totter; stand unsteadily
totteringly
pensile; pendulous
pendulously
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(variety of yẹkẹréẹ)
̣
e.g. ḅo ‘come’,
ḅoyó ‘is coming’,
etc.
yóii1
yóiimọ1
yóii2
yóiimọ2
yoliyolí
yoliyolímọ
yólokíi
yólokíimọ
yolokíyoloki
yólolíi
yólolíimọ
yolóliyolóli,
yololíyololi
yóo
yoro
yoroḅáḅio
yórodóo
yórodóomọ
yórokóo
yórokóomọ
yóroróo
yóroróomọ
yoroyoró1
yoroyorómọ1
yoroyoró2
yoroyorómọ2
yósii
yósiimọ
yoú1
yoú2
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
v.i.
& n.
adv.
a.
sleek; soft and shiny; luxuriant; sericeous
sleekly
slaver; let spittle flow from mouth; dribble
steadily (of flow)
oily; rubbed with oil
oilily
flash
excl.
shout to frighten or startle a child at game of
bo-peep
hail; hailstone
barn; store
prolate; extending in length
prolately
lean
grow lean; become emaciated
leanness
in a lean condition
prolate
prolately
sharp and pointed
sharpness
sharply
comely (of appearance)
comeliness
in a comely manner
branchy
in a branchy way
build; construct
conflict; fight; wrestle; battle; combat;
contest; war; affray; fray
arms; ammunition
start war; commence war
pugnacious
army
wrestle; fight; wage war
call a fight
cry
cry(ing)
tears; teardrops; sap of plants
used to form the past indefinite tense of verbs:
n.
n.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.t.
n.
youyaí ̣
-yoye
n.pl.
v.i.
a.
n.
v.p.
v.p.
v.i.
n.
n.pl.
suf.
yọ1
n.
yọkirí
yọ2
n.
n.
you-áye
yoú ḍọgị
yoúḍọgị
you-ítu
yoú sụọ
yoú tịn
you
flashily
flashing
flash continuously
flash
flashingly
flashing
a
sore; any place on body where skin or flesh is
bruised and inflamed
scar; cicatrice
place; building or spot devoted to specified
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(pl. you-áitu)
e.g. á ḅoyoyé ‘I
used to come’
e.g. angáyọ
purpose; passage of book, etc.; proper or
natural position; residence or dwelling:
yọ3
yọ ré ̣ ghọ
yó ̣ḅụyó ̣ḅụ,
yọḅụyọḅú ̣
yọgịlí ̣
yó ̣gịlíị̣
yó ̣gịlíịmọ
̣
yó ̣gịyó ̣gị
yó ̣gịyó ̣gịmọ
yọgọ
yọgọmó ̣
yó ̣gọló ̣ọ
yó ̣gọló ̣ọmọ
yọgọró ̣
yọgọrọmó1̣
yọgọrọmó2̣
yó ̣ịị1
yó ̣ịịmọ1
yó ̣ịị2
yó ̣ịị
yó ̣ịịmọ2
yó ̣lọkíị̣
yó ̣lọkíịmọ
̣
yọlọkíyọlọkị
̣
yọlọkíyọlọkịmọ
̣
yó ̣lọló ̣ọ
yó ̣lọló ̣ọmọ
yó ̣rọdó ̣ọ
yó ̣rọdó ̣ọmọ
yó ̣rọró ̣ọ
yó ̣rọró ̣ọmọ
yó ̣sịị
yó ̣sịịmọ
yugurúyuguru
n.
adv.p
.
v.i.
n.
a.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
v.i.
adv.
v.t.
adv.
v.t.
a.
n.
adv.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
adv.
a.
v.i.
circumstance; event
in the event of
become soft by soaking; have too much liquid
(of oil, fat, etc., in a mixture)
cluster; bunch (of coconut)
clustered
be in a cluster; cluster
in a cluster
loquacious; babbling; chattering
babble; talk excessively; chatter (of birds)
babble; chatter
loquaciously
become sodden or soggy
make sodden; make doughy, heavy and moist
pendulous; pensile; hanging down
become pendulous or pensile
pendulously
skirt; go along or past the edge of
along the edge or border
make to go past the edge of
soft and shiny; glossy; sleek; sericeous
sleekness; gloss(iness)
sleekly
slaver; let spittle flow from mouth; dribble
slavery (of spittle)
in a slavery manner; in a dribbly manner
flash
with a flash; sleekly
sleek, soft and glossy; flashing
become sleek and glossy
sleekness; glossiness
sleekly; flashingly
long and narrow
long and narrowly
prolate; pear-shaped
prolately
long and narrow
long and narrowly
well-filled (of wasps’ nest); plentiful
plentifully
quaggy; very soft
become very soft
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‘dwelling-place’;
karíyọ
̣ ‘place of
worship’;
koḅiríyayó ̣
‘meeting place’;
mindíkoroyó ̣
‘bathing place’;
timíyọ ‘dwelling or
living place’; toíyọ
‘amusement place
or place of play’
a.
adv.
plump
plumply
i
tr
tr
be rubbed (of leaves of medicine)
rub (eye or hands)
mole-cricket
female deity
priestesses in charge of ziḅá
ziḅaeremá
v.i.
v.t.
n.m.
n.f.
n.pl.p
ers.
n.m.
s
West African house snake
zigbáa1
zigbáamọ
zigbáa2
a.
adv.
a.
zigbáamọ
zigígizigígi
zigbáa2
zigbáamọ
zigígizigígi
zígizígi
zígizígi
zígizígi
zígizígimọ
zígo
zigó
zíii
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
a.
v.i.
n.
adv.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
zíiimọ
zịbígị̣
zịbịgí ̣
zịbígịzịbí
gị̣
̣
zịbígịzịbí
gịmọ
̣
̣
zịgịrímọ
̣
adv.
v.i.
v.t.
a.
adv.
v.i.
zịgịrịmó ̣
zịgịrímọzí
ịzí
̣
̣ ị̣
v.t.
n.
zígịzí
̣ gị̣
v.i.
zígịzí
̣ gịmọ
̣
adv.
zịgịzịgí ̣
zịgịzịgí ̣
zúaan
zúaanmọ
zuái
zuáimọ
zúangíi
v.t.
n.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
yúkusúu
yúkusúumọ
Z.
zábala
zabalá
zaịn
ziḅá
ziḅa-érema
stagnant
stagnantly
large (of length of cloth); (of human being)
tall and huge
largely;
tottery
tremble; dodder (continuously); totter
trembling; doddering; tottering
tremblingly
tottery
tremble; dodder; totter
trembling; doddering; tottering
tremblingly
current; drift
ford; wade
remain abundantly; exuberantly or
overflowingly in a place (as a large snake,
large rope or liquid)
abundantly; exuberantly; relaxedly
be squeezed
squeeze
confused
in a confused manner
burrow into sand or mud (as water-crab);
retire out of sight
bury; cause to hide away
game in which a nut is hidden between the
legs of a sitting member and another is asked
to guess where the nut is hidden
try to force stick for pinning canoe into water
with rocking motion (in forcing stick into
bottom of river)
pin (canoe with stick)
pinning (of canoe) with a rocking motion
long and trailing (of cloth)
fall heavily in water
stridently (of fall)
long and trailing (of cloth)
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Gryllotalpa spp.
Boaedon lineatus or
B. virgatus
e.g. zigbáamọ pẹlẹ
zúangíimọ
zugbé1
adv.
v.t.
zugbé1
zugbé2
n.
v.t.
zugbé2
zúzuru
zú ̣ḅéẹ̣
zú ̣ḅéẹmọ
̣
zụḅézụḅé
,̣
̣
zụḅẹzụḅé ̣
zụḅézụḅé
mọ
̣
̣
zú ̣léẹ̣
zú ̣léẹmọ
̣
zụlézụlé
̣ ,̣ zụlẹzụlé ̣
zụlézulé
̣ mọ
̣
n.
v.i.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
a.
adv.
v.i.
adv.
ft
use hand to strike water in a special manner to
drive shrimps into hand-net during collection
such method of collection of shrimps
use a new cloth carelessly to dirty it for first
washing
such careless use of cloth
become surplus
straight; not bending
without bending
become straight and not bending with each
tread
without bending (of some hinge joint)
straight; not bending
without bending
become straight with each tread
without bending (of some hinge joint)
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